The working party looking at the Council’s investments in Icelandic banks has until this evening been an example of good scrutiny. This evening the draft report was being considered by the full scrutiny committee and Tory councillors were clearly under orders to water the report down, push the blame entirely onto the officers for the [...]
On the 28th October last year a report was produced called ‘Council deposits in Icelandic banks – Supplementary report’. The report was a report of the the Leader and Cabinet member for resources who is of course Mike Freer. The report is exempt which means that I cannot tell you what is in it. However [...]
The value of good scrutiny made itself evident this week. I am part of a scrutiny committee working party looking at the council’s decision to invest in Icelandic banks. The working party interviewed officers and Cllr’s about their role in the decisions that led to those investments. We also looked at all the reports that [...]
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