NLC News (21/10/14)



I've just sent off another FoI appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner (SIC) because North Lanarkshire Council is refusing to release more details of an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) carried out back in 2006.

Now the EIA was conducted independently and the terms of reference were discussed with Unison apparently, but for some reason North Lanarkshire Council is reluctant to disclose any more information about the assessment which is very odd, if you ask me. 

But then a lot of things within North Lanarkshire Council are very strange including the fact that senior officials get paid big performance bonuses while the rest of the workforce face a policy of pay restraint.  

So let's see what the Scottish Information Commissioner has to say because I don't buy for a minute the Council's argument that releasing this information would be 'prejudicial to the good conduct of public affairs' - I think it's all about trying to save senior officials from potential embarrassment.

By the way isn't in interesting that as soon as I asked an FoI question about North Lanarkshire's performance pay figures for 2013/14 - that the figures for the current year were suddenly published on the Council's web site.  

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