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Wirral Council’s Labour Cabinet recommend council tax rise for 2019-20

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Cabinet (Wirral Council) Budget Meeting 18th February 2019 Part 1 of 3

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Cabinet (Wirral Council) Budget Meeting 18th February 2019 Part 2 of 3

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Cabinet (Wirral Council) Budget Meeting 18th February 2019 Part 3 of 3

Cllr Janette Williamson (left) addressing Wirral Council’s Cabinet about the 2019-20 Budget 18th February 2019 — **Cllr Janette Williamson (Cabinet Member for Finance & Resources) (left) addressing Wirral Council’s Cabinet about the 2019-20 Budget 18th February 2019**

Wirral Council’s Labour Cabinet met yesterday morning to make a recommendation to a public meeting of all Wirral Council councillors to be held on the 4th March 2019 for Wirral Council’s budget for the 2019-20 financial year.
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What did a Government Internal Audit Agency draft report reveal about Wirral Council procurement processes and how a contractor spent public money?

**Chris Whittingham (Grant Thornton) 29th January 2018 Audit and Risk Management Committee (Wirral Council)**

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw

Below is a GIAA (Government Internal Audit Agency) draft report. It involves a civil servant recommending clawback of a large amount of grant from Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council. It also comments on other council’s procurement processes and how the money was spent with a particular supplier. This is just the text extracted from the documents below.
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Has Cllr Chris Meaden (Rock Ferry) left the Labour Group on Wirral Council?

Cllr Steve Foulkes (middle) answers a question about the Merseyrail strike (L to R Cllr Chris Meaden, Cllr Steve Foulkes, Cllr Moira McLaughlin and Cllr Ann McLachlan) Birkenhead Constituency Committee 30th March 2017

Cllr Chris Meaden (on the left of the picture above) who is a councillor for Rock Ferry is now listed as an independent on Wirral Council’s website (previously elected as a Labour councillor). She is also one of the four councillors from Wirral Council appointed to Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority.
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