For a full month OnTheWight has been trying to find out quite how much the Isle of Wight council paid to Island Roads since the start of the PFI contract on 1st April 2013.
It’s not been easy.
Misled
When the responses to our questions have turned up, we’ve later found that the answers that we were given were misleading on a number of levels.
We’ve got another article detailing the merry dance we were – and still are being – led (Someone at the council doesn’t want you to know how much tax payers’ money was paid to Island Roads last year).
All of the resistance displayed by the council gives us the impression that someone at the Isle of Wight council doesn’t want you to know how much tax payers’ money was paid to Island Roads last year.
Here it is
That aside for the moment – what we do have is the amount that Island Roads are being paid this year – every month.
The people that we’ve told about it have been shocked.
Including VAT, £1,734,876 is being paid to Island Roads – each and every month between April 2013 and 2014.
After that, the amount will go up.
That per day is …
To save you doing the maths, that’s £57,037 … every single day of the year.
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