Petition Tag - councillors expenses

On 24th November 2009 the Standards Committee of Lewisham Council decided that subject to a vote at Full Council (vote to take place sometimes in the middle of next year) Councillors' expenses could in the future be made public on the Council's website.

It is bitterly ironic therefore that this year's expenses' list was removed from the Standards Committee papers before their publication on the Council's website.

Despite Lewisham Council's failure to publish it, the list has fortunately found its way out and is now in the public domain ( http://bit.ly/4YKt97 ). It is nevertheless important that any Lewisham resident looking for it on the Council's website would be able to find it with ease.

These missing papers are not of any confidential nature but are instead of great public interest as they clearly show who is more cautious with public money and who isn't.

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