Press Release on Fraud

[steveL]

This one made me smile a bit. Seems that when the council is talking about misuse of public funds or fraud it is focused on people who claim their bus passes early and not anything it's own Councillors have been up to...

Press Release
Ensuring best use of public money

HARTLEPOOL Borough Council is participating in an exercise to promote the proper spending of public money.
The authority must by law protect the public funds it administers and is obliged to share information provided to it with other bodies responsible for auditing or administering public funds in order to detect and prevent fraud.

The authority is required to participate in an anti-fraud initiative administered by the Cabinet Office and is providing details of concessionary bus pass holders, Blue Badge holders, parking permit holders, personal licence holders and market traders for the purpose of comparing these with information provided by other public bodies. This will ensure early discovery of possible fraudulent cases which will prompt further investigation.  These exercises, therefore, help ensure the best use of public funds.

Further information can be requested by contacting the Council's Customer Services Team on 01429 523337 or via the following HBC website link

https://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/info/20032/access_to_information/500/access_to_information/6

Press  release pr25889. September 16 2016.
Issued by Steve Hilton, Senior Public Relations Officer, on (01429) 284065.

[Land Phil]

It's like the Mafia going to church on Sunday.

[marky]

Steve Hilton used to be a political adviser and chief spin merchant to David Cameron. He quit a few years ago, now lives in America and is often seen as a guest on Newsnight.


Let's hope the name is just a coincidence and that we're not dealing with some HBC suit with a wannabe pseudonym 

[steveL]

    maybe he's moonlighting

[The Great Dictator]

Steve has worked in the civic for 20 and he's quite harmless, i think he was a MAIL rep before that.