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Andrew, if we understand you correctly, you want assurances that the powers of direction will be activated and that the same forms of accounts will be used. I want all bodies that are in receipt of public funds to account for their budgets.
If that happens, there should be public funding to back it up.Four and a half years into devolution, we are still puzzled about why the code of best practice will not arrive until December 2004.
The payment of such allowances will be transparent and all expenditure must be receipted and will be published along with information on the general allowances scheme.
I must therefore say on the record that the councillor whom you mention might simply have been complying with the code of conduct. If the councillor was acting within the code, he was acting absolutely appropriately.