Decisions by Westminster Conservatives mean that The Caravan Project, next to St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, is set to close on the 31st August 2010. The Project provides a vital resource for recovering drug and alcohol addicts. The threat of closure has come as a blow to the 200 service users of the Caravan Project which provides a safe area (away from street drug dealers) for users and ...

Westminster City Council spends over £15 million a year on temporary contact staff, including 26 people who are costing the Council over £100,000 a year, according to information uncovered by Labour Councillors. The highest paid temporary employee is a Project Manager in the Children's Services Department who is costing Council Tax payers over £185,000 a year, including a 25...

Conservatives guilty of massive incompetence after parking income falls by £20 million - services to the elderly and children slashed; Hundreds of jobs to go; Charges to go up and new charges introduced. Westminster Conservatives have revealed their plans to slash £60 million from the Council's budget over the next three years in order to fill the £20 million a year black ho...

Project Evaluator - Short Term Detention Project This leading support services organisation specialises in providing a consultancy service to the public sector is currently looking to recruit an Project Evaluator to provide an evaluation of a short term Detention Project. Background:- The UKBA (UK Business Advisors) has secured £2,000,000 from the Returns and Reintegration Fund controlled by...

Despite a £20 million hole in the Council's budget, which has led to £60 million of cuts over the next three years, Westminster Conservatives found no difficulty in spending nearly £10,000 on a 'Living City 2010 Summer Reception' at Westminster Abbey on 1st July. Attended by 151 people, the Reception costs were £9,381 of which food was £1,680 and drinks...

Westminster Labour call for David Cameron to denounce slap-up dinner on the rates for Conservative Councillors who lost £17 million investing in now-failed Icelandic Banks. Labour Councillors in Westminster have blasted Westminster Conservatives for going ahead with a £23,000 Black-Tie Civic Dinner at Lancaster House, St James's on Sunday 22nd March. Labour Councillors say that sp...

A £20 million hole in the Council budget, £17 million at risk in now-failed Icelandic banks, and 300 staff made redundant - but it is 'business as usual' for Westminster Conservatives as invitations go out to the 'great and the good' for the Annual Civic Dinner at the The Northumberland, in Northumberland Avenue, which is costing Westminster Council Tax payers &poun...

Meanwhile, Conservatives claim they have no money but announce £40 million spending on seven West End road projects. Westminster Conservatives have axed a proposed new £9.2 million Adult Education Centre in Moxon Street, Marylebone claiming that they do not have the money yet, on the same day, they announced a new £40 million plan for seven road improvement schemes, including a n...

Shirley Porter's "Homes for Votes" scandal returns to haunt Westminster Conservatives Westminster Conservatives have spent over £14 million buying back nearly 60 former Council flats sold by the Council in the 1980's, including 8 flats sold by former Conservative Leader, Shirley Porter, as part of the Council's illegal Designated Sales "Homes for Votes" policy. The former Coun...

Westminster Council Tax payers will have to pay another £37,000 so that that Westminster Conservatives can hire top City accountants, KPMG, to tell them about all the mistakes that were made when the Council invested £17 million in now-failed Icelandic banks earlier this year. KPMG have been hired by Westminster City Council to review the Council's "investment strategy and interna...