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...

Westminster City Council is spending over £20,000 a year on scaffolding to keep The Balmoral Castle, a derelict public house situated on the Churchill Gardens Estate in Pimlico, closed. According to information uncovered by Westminster's Labour Councillors: "The building has been empty since the lease to Watney Truman Limited expired in 2006. The building is derelict, has structural pro...

Labour Councillors have welcomed Westminster Council's belated decision to scrap its proposed West End evening and Sunday parking charges but have asked who is going to foot the £1 million bill for the parking charge fiasco. Labour Councillors say that the Council has run up a £1 million bill, including £300,000 for the cost of hundreds of new street signs which were ordered...

The bill for Westminster Council's botched attempt to re-tender the parking enforcement contract will be almost £750,000, according to Labour Councillors who have prized the information out of the Conservative-run Council. Over the next three months, the Council will pay the existing contractor, NSL, a fee of almost £750,000 for continuing to enforce parking restrictions while the...

Labour Councillors have slammed Westminster Conservatives for spending over £231,000 on private health insurance for 100 senior managers at the Council. Last year the private health insurance bill for Council staff was over £228,000. Labour say that spending over £230,000 on private health insurance for Council staff is the wrong use of public money at a time when nearly 400 Coun...

But new Government rules could slash nearly 14,500 residents from the electoral register. Westminster Labour Councillors have congratulated the Council's Electoral Registration Service for achieving a return rate of 91.21%, the highest ever achieved, and the first time that a return rate of over 90% has been reached. The Westminster electorate in December 2011 was 144,076, based on a return f...

Labour Councillors have condemned Westminster City Council for spending only £20,000 on gritting salt to clear Westminster's treacherous pavements at the same time as they plan to spend over £23,000 on next month's Civic Dinner when hundreds of guests of Conservative councillors will be entertained at a lavish dinner at public expense. Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg, Leader of ...

Schools could lose nearly 20% of pupils, 50 children in need affected, together with 30 adults with 'serious and enduring mental health problems'. Government plans to cut Local Housing Allowance will have a devastating impact on 4,000 children and 500 vulnerable adults in Westminster, according to a briefing for Councillors by Council officers. Councillors have been told that Westminster...

Westminster Conservatives have agreed to spend £960,000 on five 'Transformation and Change Management' consultants from PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the next 12 months, with the option to extend the contract for a further six months bringing the total cost to Westminster Council Tax payers to £1,440,000. Labour Councillors have attacked this decision at a time when the Council ...

Labour Councillors are calling on Westminster Council to take action to return the borough's estimated 3,000 empty private properties back into use for local residents and families. As part of National Empty Homes Week, Labour Councillors are calling on residents to report properties they think may be empty. Labour Councillors have already reported a long-standing empty Council property at 10...