Sep 20
Cash strapped Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to write off a further £7.5m of debt when its Cabinet meets next Thursday, doubling the amount it has written off in the last 2 years, taking the total to £16m. ¹In May earlier this year the Labour run council wrote off £3m and said it had put things …
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Sep 08
Stoke-on-Trent’s three Labour MPs, Rob Flello, Tristram Hunt and Joan Walley’s, claim for expenses have rocketed over 12 months by over 20% as figures are published by the IPSA for MPs expense for the 2011/12 financial year. All three of the potteries MPs have significantly increased their claims for expenses, with Tristram Hunt, Stoke Central …
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Jul 16
The first data sets from the national census for the UK were released today and include local population figures for local authorities. In 2001, the population figure for Stoke-on-Trent stood at 240,636. Bear in mind that in the intervening years the Housing Market Renewal Programme swept across the City decimating areas. One of its key recommendation …
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May 09
Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Chief Executive Officer, John van der Laarschot, has made number 37 on the taxpayers alliance 2012 Town Hall Rich List. The list also shows that Mr Laarschot receives more than the CEO of Staffordshire County Council, who is below him on the list. Council Name Job Title 2010-11 Hammersmith and Fulham Geoff …
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Feb 06
The blanket of secrecy surrounding the Dimensionsgate affair tightened further this weekend as the Standards Committee on Stoke-on-Trent City refused to investigate complaints made against the Leader of the Council, Mohammed Pervez, and deposed Elected Mayor, Mark Meredith, over their involvement of the closure of Dimensions splashpool and links with a local leisure company. On …
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Jan 31
The Standards Committee, the body that investigates complaints about councillors and their conduct, appears to have packed up and gone away since the current ruling Labour councillors got elected figures released for Thursday full council meetings show. Whilst the Dimensionsgate scandal rumbles on these latest figures appear to show that complaints from the public about …
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Jan 18
All Stoke-on-Trent City Council spending over £500 (over 32000 entries!) in one easy searchable file: Click Here for a full page view
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