The Star: Friday, April 15,
2016.
In the full
council meeting last Wednesday, the Sheffield Liberal Democrats proposed that
from now on, when new contracts are put out to tender from Sheffield City
Council, service providers must agree to sign up to Freedom of Information
rules that apply to the council as a condition of winning a contract.
Under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 all public authorities have to publish certain
information and members of the public are entitled to request information.
Freedom of
Information allows public bodies to be held up for scrutiny and allows
taxpayers to know how their money is being spent.
We believe
that taxpayers should be able to know where their money is being spent, whether
by the council themselves or by their service providers.
This is
something that we as a city council have the power to do and change and make a
real difference, and we were disappointed to see that the Labour councillors
voted this down.
Not only do
our Labour council not want their actions to be held up to scrutiny, as we saw
with the recent cuts to bus services, they want to protect the interests of
private companies over Sheffield residents.”
Coun Shaffaq
Mohammed
Liberal
Democrats
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