Many of you will have read the article in today’s Manchester Evening News about the mobile phone bills run up by local Councils. Salford City Council has a staggering 2615 mobile phone handsets and racked up a bill of £292500 last year.
Now, I don’t doubt that for some Council staff a mobile phone is an essential requirement of their job. However I really struggle to see the justification for quite so many handsets and I would hope that the figure can be revised downwards significantly in the coming years.
I know that some of my Conservative colleagues have been holding the Council to account over mobile phone usage for some years now (and will continue to do so!) and I have no doubt that but for their efforts the Council taxpayer would be footing an even bigger bill than the one printed in the MEN today.
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