A blog about Wirral Council, Wirral Council's councillors & officers
A blog about Wirral Council's public meetings, Wirral Council's councillors, Bidston & St. James ward and other public bodies on Merseyside
Wirral Council’s Cabinet expected to recommend 5.99% council tax rise for 2018-19
The author’s wife has a liability for council tax for 2018-19 for a property on the Wirral, so I declare that as a financial interest in the below piece.
I would like to also thank the Bureau of Investigative Journalists (BIJ) for their help in the area of council budgets and this piece.
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Councillors on Merseyside Police and Crime Panel agree to 7.2% rise in police element of council tax from April 2018
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Merseyside Police and Crime Panel 6th February 2018 Part 1 of 3
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Merseyside Police and Crime Panel 6th February 2018 Part 2 of 3
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Merseyside Police and Crime Panel 6th February 2018 Part 3 of 3
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Merseyside Police and Crime Panel 6th February 2018 slides
On Tuesday, the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel (the two councillors on it from the Wirral are Cllr Tony Smith (Labour) and Cllr Cherry Povall (Conservative)) agreed to the Police and Crime Commissioner’s request for a 7.2% rise in the element of council tax that goes to pay for the Merseyside Police.
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What did Merseyside Police spend money on (112 pages of invoices)?
On Tuesday morning the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel meets to consider the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside’s Budget for 2018-19. That includes the budget for Merseyside Police and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside.
Last year (due to the snap general election) I didn’t do a citizen audit of expenditure by Merseyside Police.
Below are 112 pages from the year before (2015-2016) I asked for which covers about a third of the invoices that were supplied. This is from a larger cache of documents.
The below documents range from amounts paid to solicitors to end lawsuits, various invoices from other public bodies, charges relating to police dogs, a seized vehicle being auctioned and many other types of expenditure.
Continues at What did Merseyside Police spend money on (96 pages of invoices)?
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Will there be a new community police station in the Carrbridge Centre, Woodchurch?
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Merseyside Police and Crime Panel 26th October 2017 Part 1 of 3
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What would ICO make of these 2 documents open to public inspection?
Above are photos of the Chief Constable of Merseyside Police Andy Cooke and the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside. One has responsibility for the operational side of policing, the other for the political side of policing. It was a sixteen and a half minute meeting to discuss collaboration and can be viewed on Youtube here.
For some reason this email (see above) about a stamp duty amount of £103,200 is marked restricted.
So the following has been blacked out:
Blackburn Dawn
Riley John Michael Edward
John Riley
Chief Finance Officer
0151 777 5177
john.riley@merseysidepcc.info
So far, that information is in the public domain already.
So, that’s probably a one off you’re thinking. But what about this £2.58 million payment?
Oh yes they’ve done it again!
Bank Name: Lloyds Bank PLC
Branch: Merchants Court, 2-12 Lord Street, Liverpool, L1 1TS
Reference: PCCM Estuary Park
Sort Code 30-95-11
Account No: 01091450
Payee: DWF LLP
On the plus side, unlike the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service they didn’t accidentally release the specimen signatures for the bank accounts too!
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