TORY COVER-UP WASTED MILLIONS (Scarborough and Whitby Liberal Democrats)

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TORY COVER-UP WASTED MILLIONS

November 13, 2008 9:25 AM

Liberal Democrat Councillors on North Yorkshire County Council are outraged that the ruling Conservatives have refused to permit scrutiny of the Minerals and Waste Core Strategy.

At today's meeting of the Council's Environment & Heritage Overview & Scrutiny Committee, Liberal Democrat members called for full scrutiny of the failure of the examination in public of the Minerals & Waste Core Strategy.

This follows the decision of the Tory Executive to withdraw the strategy document following the Government Inspector pointing out its major faults.

But the Tories and Labour together voted against full scrutiny. In voting to refuse scrutiny the Tories, with Labour support, have voted to cover-up Tory incompetence and the waste of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money.

Lib Dem Councillor Richard Hall (Knaresborough), comments:

"I am appalled that this Tory-controlled administration does not have the guts to agree to a scrutiny of what went wrong, why it went wrong, where we go from here and the potential waste of taxpayers' money."

"I will be continuing to do all I can to expose this outrage, question the leadership and encourage others to do the same, in the interest of the taxpayers of North Yorkshire."