{"id":725,"date":"2011-08-01T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedscd.wordpress.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2011-08-01T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T13:42:08","slug":"a-window-into-council-revenues-closes-on-august-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2011\/08\/01\/a-window-into-council-revenues-closes-on-august-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"A Window Into Council Revenues…closes on August 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that, up\u00a0until\u00a0August 19th 2011, you are entitled to look at, and to ask for copies of, any documents relating to Leeds City Council financial transactions that happened during the year 1st April 2010 and 31st March 2011.<\/p>\n

The exception to this is any documents which contain personal information about a member of staff, which the legislation excludes from the inspection rights. Depending on the areas of income or expenditure that you are interested in, the types of documentation available would include invoices paid by the council, invoices sent out by the council, contracts, and documents showing how internal charges from one service to another have been calculated.<\/p>\n

Once you have inspected any documents that you want to see, the legislation gives you the right to either ask questions to the council’s auditors (KPMG), or to raise objections to them about any aspect of the accounts.<\/p>\n

The Audit Commission’s guidance on this ‘Council’s accounts – your rights<\/a>‘ is downloadable as a pdf from the Council’s website..<\/p>\n

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