Day: 24 September 2014

Expense claim forms for Councillor Harry Smith 2013 to 2014

Expense claim forms for Councillor Harry Smith 2013 to 2014

Expense claim forms for Councillor Harry Smith 2013 to 2014

                                                    

Councillor Harry Smith is a Labour Party councillor for Bidston & St. James ward. During the period these expense claims cover, he was Cabinet Member for what is now called Highways and Transportation but was previously called Streetscene and Transport.

His expense claim forms cover his work as a Cabinet Member (referred to by the initials CM on the forms), work on Wirral Council’s Pensions Committee (which manage the Merseyside Pension Fund worth billions of pounds), conferences & training, housing association meetings (where he was a Wirral Council representative), an employment appeal (the trade unions are still in dispute over this being decided by officers now and not councillors and this looks like it may have been one of the last decided by councillors), the Beechwood Joint Management Committee (on which he was a Wirral Council representative), full Council meetings, a Cabinet “Away Day” in July 2013 with the Chief Executive Graham Burgess, a meeting of the North Birkenhead Development Trust (which runs the St James Centre in Laird Street), a leadership program meeting in Acre Lane, a site visit in his role as Cabinet Member and a meeting at the Floral Pavilion about the flooding in New Brighton.

The sixteen pages of claim forms covering this period are below.

Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 1
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 1
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 2
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 2
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 3
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 3
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 4
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 4
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 5
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 5
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 6
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 6
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 7
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 7
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 8
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 8
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 9
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 9
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 10
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 10
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 11
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 11
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 12
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 12
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 13
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 13
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 14
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 14
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Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 15
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 16
Cllr Harry Smith expenses claim 2013 2014 page 16

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Wirral Council pay £172,910 + VAT + expenses to consultants to help find £2.5 million of savings (Future Council)

Wirral Council pay £172,910 + VAT + expenses to consultants to help find £2.5 million of savings (Future Council)

Wirral Council pay £172,910 + VAT + expenses to consultants to help find £2.5 million of savings (Future Council)

                                   

Future Council Wirral logo
Future Council Wirral logo

Information revealed by Wirral Council in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by Councillor Paul Hayes has stated that fifty-three of its staff are working on the “Future Council” project, which is the current consultation (closing on the 31st October 2014) to find £2.5 million of savings. The “Future Council” consultation launch was reported on by this blog earlier this month.

All fifty-three staff were asked to sign “confidentiality statements” and “conflict of interest” forms to do with their “Future Council” work. Councillors on Wirral Council’s three scrutiny committees have recently agreed to behind closed doors meetings to discuss the budget options during the consultation period.

However Wirral Council also revealed that the “Future Council” project is also supported by a team of four consultants from EY (previously called Ernst and Young) at a cost of £172,910 + VAT + expenses. This comes on top of a recent scandal about another set of consultants that Wirral Council hired called V4 being paid more than was authorised by politicians (as revealed by the Liverpool Echo in the last few days).

Certainly Wirral Council paying outside consultants £172,910 + VAT + expenses will not go down well with either the trade unions or staff facing the prospect of being made redundant.

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