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Originally Posted by garinda
Since it's been brought up, and is about 'funding', and therefore not off thread, I'd just like to point out that every time questions are asked, using the Freedom of Information Act, people have to drop the paid work they are employed to do by H.B.C., and leaving what they are primarily paid to do for us, spend many, many hours collating the requested information.
This means many people, in many different sections, are redeployed for days on end sometimes, in order to gather the information in the limited time frame, that the Act specifies.
All perfectly legal of course, and probably great fun for some.
Though probably not for the residents of Hyndburn, who suffer because other important work, done on their behalf, remains ignored.
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Although this request resulted in many, many man hours being devoted to collating the information, on this occasion I do not think it was masterminded by some shadowy political puppeteer.
Let's not ignore the fact that one Tory activist sent a message to another Tory activist, but which was mistakenly sent to me by mistake, which to summarise, basically said a warning had already been issued not to ask questions regarding councillors expenses, because another, more important, councillor, could end up in the 'doo-doo'.