Dan Peters 18 July 2024

'Too costly to answer our own questions'

Whitehall has claimed it would be too costly to answer the same questions councils have been asked ahead of tomorrow’s productivity plans deadline.

Departments, including the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), offered a string of excuses as they refused to answer the questions ministers had posed to councils after The MJ submitted a series of Freedom of Information (FoI) Act requests.

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