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'There's no end of trouble'
Eifion Rees Public, Monday 12 July
2010
From January local councils will be forced to
declare spending over £500, while improving transparency has been
broadly welcomed - some think a more targeted release of data is
more desirable.
As an exercise in improving openness and
accountability, the move has been broadly welcomed. In terms of the
sheer amount of information that must be disclosed next year – not
only new items of local government spending, contracts and tenders
over £500, but also frontline service data including allowances,
expenses and senior salaries – councils may find themselves
agreeing with Griffin's (the hero of HG Wells's The Invisible
Man, and something of an authority on the equivocal benefits of
transparency) neat summation of what it means to be
seen through: "There is no end of trouble."
Read more at:
http://www.guardianpublic.co.uk/council-transparency-spending-data?goback=%2Egde_2992456_news_149705651
TAGS: transparency, spending, allowances, contracts, tenders, open data, local government