Of course armchair auditors are going to have a field day. That is the whole point.
My view however, is that publishing contracts would be Sir Humphried. Put into the long grass. Publishing payments however is a little easier. All councils will run an accounts system. It's a query. So forcing payments is a little more subtle. It's difficult to subvert. Now what do you get with just the payment information? You get to know who's receiving the cash. You can then FOI the relevant authority as to why. That's where you can make a difference with my society. Payment information mashed up with an FOIA request, which is there already Nick On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Rob McKinnon <[email protected]>wrote: > 2009/12/7 Nick Leaton <[email protected]>: > > The alternative is just to force them to publish all payments. > > The conservatives say they are going to publish some government contract > data: > > "Every item of government spending over £25,000 would also be recorded > on the web. All government contracts worth more than £10,000 would be > published online, unleashing in the words of Maude "armchair auditors" > happy to crawl over government accounts." > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/05/conservatives-civil-service-reform > > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > -- Nick
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