24 May (Part 1) - Someone messed up…
You may have read here that in response to an FOI request, Bexley Council
was unable to provide any evidence that it had ever lobbied Government for a better funding grant
which in view of the number of times the Leader has said otherwise was more than a little strange.
Soon after publication of that news here, coincidence I am sure, Paul Thorogood
the Chief Executive, wrote an exceptionally friendly email to @tonyofsidcup apologising for
what had been a horrible mistake by whichever highly paid official had been delegated to respond.
The corrected response is that there have been quite a lot of addresses to various governmental committees and
briefings to MPs plus letters to Government Ministers. Some of the most recent
ones to the present Government at the most senior level were supplied as evidence.