SIR – The Council’s refusal to tell us the cost of the park/pool project on the spurious basis of commercial confidentiality could be construed as yet another cop-out to prevent further embarrassment as the total relentlessly escalates in excess of £30 million.
However, our own Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has committed local authorities to demonstrate complete transparency by publishing items of spending of more than £500.
Therefore, instead of having to invoke statutory legislation and demanding to see all invoices relative to the park pool, would it not be more cost-effective for Council officials to tell us how much they have spent since the project’s inception, and how much they have now budgeted to pay on completion, which presumably will be within this financial year?
John Pashley, Westcliffe Avenue, Baildon
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