If you've been following the 'Michael Hainge' thread running through this blog, you'll know that recently the Council's Legal Dept admitted to me that the £123,000 extra paid last year to this departing employee (he got £250,000 in total) included a "confidentiality" or gagging clause.
But in this correspondence in February, national transparency campaigner Paul Cardin is assured that inserting such clauses is not Council policy and the Council has no recollection of implementing any gagging agreements
It looks as if someone high up "advised" the Council's Information Officer to tell a straight falsehood in an official Freedom Of Information response.
That's pretty heavy, isn't it?
'AN EXPENSES ACCOUNT' Jim Miller's adventures in the banana republic of Nth Herefordshire leominsterindependent@live.co.uk
