Dudley Council leader admits scrutiny is not ‘done well’
Dudley Council’s leader launched an attack on how the authority marks its own homework by calling for better scrutiny.
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com
and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565
Councillor Patrick Harley slammed politicians from all sides for not doing a good enough job of examining proposals and decisions.
During a debate at a meeting of the council’s cabinet on October 23, Councillor Harley also laid into members for not attending training sessions to learn more about how to understand council business.
Councillor Harley said: “I don’t think as a council we do scrutiny very well at all, it is still not good enough.
“Sometimes we haven’t got the facts in front of us and sometimes members, from across the political divide, ask questions which aren’t relevant to the subject matter.
“We have done scrutiny well in this authority, the Hall Street issue, the closure of the museum in Stone Street, those two examples were good where it was a cross party thing and we got it right.
