RESULTS OF SPA COSTS PROBE 'WILL BE MADE PUBLIC'


Bath Chronicle: 01 May 2004

FOI starts to make a mark at local level:

"Council chief executive John Everitt has pledged that the results of an inquiry into the spiralling costs of Bath's spa project will be made public. An internal audit is under way looking at how a scheme originally budgeted to cost £13.5m is now heading for the £30m mark. Cllr Watt had asked Mr Everitt to confirm that the confidentiality agreement would not hinder the audit. He also asked whether the full report would be passed to councillors as soon as it was available and if, subject to the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the report's contents would be made public."