Labour councillors have expressed anger over Government plans to bring in commissioners to help run the authority. Councillors took it in turns to express their frustrations at a full council meeting held at the Council House on Monday, July 11.
In June, The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities wrote to the council over concerns about the way it had handled the unlawful spending of council tenants’ rent money. The department said it was ‘minded’ to send in government-appointed commissioners to take control of the situation, as has happened at a small number of other struggling councils across the country.
If commissioners are called in then financial decisions could be taken out of the hands of elected members and senior officers, which includes the way money is spent in the city. Last week, the council revealed it had sent an appeal letter to the government asking for them not to intervene.
