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Huge increase in FOI requests

Apr 15 2009 Birkenhead News

COUNCIL chiefs are warning the huge rise in freedom of information requests over the last 18 months could lead to “resource implications”.

In the act’s first year, 2005, only 135 requests were posted with Wirral Council.

But by the end of 2008, and the release of the controversial Strategic Asset Review (SAR), that number had almost quadrupled to 538.

For Liscard Cllr Leah Fraser, the figures are further proof of the public’s “lack of faith” in the current administration.

Cllr Fraser said: “This is yet more evidence of the public’s lack of faith in the selective information they were given during the so-called consultation.”

A Wirral Council spokesperson said: “The fact there has been such a huge increase will mean resource implications.”

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