Due to poor drafting, the Freedom Of Information Act is a very effective tool for the public to find out what our politicians are up to. It actually works very well, as our chastened members of parliament have found out. Locally, it has its uses too:
Spot the difference -
On the 22nd November 2007, Mayor Harrison (yes him again) answered a question made by a resident as to the cost of his administration hiring DTW Advertising and Marketing Ltd. He publicly stated a figure of £150,000. Freedom of Information later revealed this figure to be way off the mark, at the time it was £238,945 and rising. At present the cost is rattling towards £500,000.
Mayor Harrison has also created a "Communications Unit" - that's a 'spin machine' to you and me - and that gobbles up £515,976 per year in wages alone. All this information and much more came from a single Freedom of Information request......
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