Scrapped ferry link wasted more than £700K
Friday afternoons are clearly a popular time for Cornwall Council to post answers to FoI questions - here's another, in response to a query about the Penzance-Isles of Scilly ferry link:
The FOI request asked how much we had spent on Option A for which the answer is £724,606.32 comprising:
ECI contractor (design preparation) 463,507.96
Legal & internal consultancy 227,326.81
Other Costs 33,771.55
Comment number 1.
At 30th May 2011, Saltashgaz wrote:I suspect it's more
but we already know Cornwall council are not very good at working with raw data
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Comment number 2.
At 31st May 2011, TimV wrote:Strange, as whilst the controversy raged, expenditure was quoted as several million pounds and this was never contradicted by CC spokespersons, as far as I am aware. Is CC yet again being economical with the truth, if not with our taxes?
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