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Mr Reasonable: April 2015
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Standing up for common sense in New Barnet. Thursday, 30 April 2015. Barnet financial year end shows a bumper year for Capita and Comensura. Today sees the publication of March 2015 supplier payments and marks the end of the financial year. Unsurprisingly Capita have picked up a large chunk of revenue. In total in 2014-15 Capita have been paid £51,787,011.34. According to my reckoning we shouldn't be paying more than £36.56 million plus inflation which as we know at the minute is zero %. Subscribe to: Po...
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Mr Reasonable: Barnet Council where are the savings - Who pays for the interim staff?
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Standing up for common sense in New Barnet. Monday, 25 May 2015. Barnet Council where are the savings - Who pays for the interim staff? As I blogged about yesterday, I am challenging Richard Cornelius, Andrew Travers and Capita to show me where are the promised massive savings. Perhaps part of the £3 million per annum increase in the Comensura costs is a switch between contracts and if that is the case are we, the Barnet residents seeing the benefits? Monday, May 25, 2015. Lack of financial scrutiny.
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Mr Reasonable: £11 million down the drain - Barnet's Blue Bin Failure
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Standing up for common sense in New Barnet. Tuesday, 5 May 2015. 163;11 million down the drain - Barnet's Blue Bin Failure. Roll forward two years and what do we find? After the initial honey moon period, recycling rates are now slightly lower than before the blue bins were introduced see below. I wonder if Councillor Cohen will be trying to explain why after such a huge £11 million investment we are back to where we started? Tuesday, May 05, 2015. 5 May 2015 at 12:24. 5 May 2015 at 12:26. Commingled col...
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Mr Reasonable: Royal Brunswick Park - 1600 homes on North London Business Park
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Standing up for common sense in New Barnet. Tuesday, 9 June 2015. Royal Brunswick Park - 1600 homes on North London Business Park. Barnet are terribly keen to vacate North London Business Park (NLBP) and Barnet House and relocate to a sparking new office at Colindale. You can read the report here. Today I happened to be looking through council decisions which are taken by officers and came across this and pennies began to drop. You can read it here. With such a massive potential development why has this ...
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Mr Reasonable: Barnet and the Dodgy Business Case
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Standing up for common sense in New Barnet. Tuesday, 2 June 2015. Barnet and the Dodgy Business Case. Today some Barnet Council staff are on strike about the continued outsourcing of services in Barnet. Already we are starting to see the wheels are starting to come off existing outsourced contracts with over grown cemeteries. And the "Inadequate" rating given to an outsourced care home (read the damning Care Quality Commission report here. The services being outsourced include:. Tuesday, June 02, 2015.
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Mr Reasonable: August 2015
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Standing up for common sense in New Barnet. Monday, 31 August 2015. URGENT: Act to save Cricklewood's last green open space from Barnet Council's land grab. From the Coalition for a Sustainable Brent Cross Development. Act to save Cricklewood's last green open space from Barnet Council's land grab. Cricklewood Open Space (Thomas Bell Photographs). This is what Barnet Council says to justify the selling off of Cricklewood's last green space:. Scroll down for the last few postings there:. Write to the comm...
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Mr Reasonable: January 2015
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Standing up for common sense in New Barnet. Friday, 30 January 2015. Christmas cheer for Capita as they bill Barnet £16.69 million in December. Barnet's supplier payments for December. Reveal £16.69 million paid to Capita even after two credit notes for a total of £1.5 million. Barnet keep saying these payments are in line with the payments schedule but I am at a loss to see how they can have billed so much in just one month. Friday, January 30, 2015. Labels: agency staff costs. Lack of financial scrutiny.
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Mr Reasonable: Barnet June supplier payments - £11.5 million to Capita and £1.8 million to Comensura
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Standing up for common sense in New Barnet. Monday, 3 August 2015. Barnet June supplier payments - £11.5 million to Capita and £1.8 million to Comensura. In June Capita were paid in total £11,520,890.74; £7.66 million on the CSG contract and £3.86 million on the Re contract. I wonder how this will pan out over the rest of the financial year. The council also spent £36,271.82 with a company called Wider Plan who specialise in employee benefits; their website is here. Monday, August 03, 2015. Barnet - The ...
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Mr Reasonable: September 2014
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Standing up for common sense in New Barnet. Monday, 22 September 2014. One Barnet and Why Capita's £75 million Doesn't Add Up. We have been told repeatedly that the Capita One Barnet Contract will save residents millions of pounds. The two main contracts and the forecast savings are as follows:. NSCSO (now called CSG). Baseline (at December 2012) costs £38.8 million. Forecast costs savings £7.01 million. Procurement savings £4.69 million. Improved council tax collection £0.84 million. DSG (now called Re).
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Mr Reasonable: December 2014
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Standing up for common sense in New Barnet. Sunday, 28 December 2014. Barnet Spend on Interims and Agency Staff Continues to Rise. Supplier payments for November are out and yet again the fallacies of savings are cast into doubt. Back in July I blogged. Question 5 Councillor Mark Shooter. What was the trend in the last quarter of 2013/14 with regards to the council’s spend on agency. Answer by the Leader. There was a 12% reduction in agency staffing expenditure. Agency staff costs incurred during. Other ...
