SIR – I write following a series of recent articles contained within the Worcester News asserting that Wyre Forest District Council made a surplus on its concessionary travel scheme at a cost to Worcester City Council.
May I take this opportunity to reassert that Wyre Forest District Council does not make a profit on its concessionary travel scheme and the figures quoted within both of your articles relate to projected figures by consultants which are bearing no resemblance to the figures in reality.
I take particular offence at the comments of the city council’s head of finance when he asserts that the whole issue could have been avoided had the councils agreed to distribute the grant between themselves. I would be failing as the leader of Wyre Forest District Council if I subsidised Worcester city’s activities from a grant that we have fully committed to the scheme it was intended to do.
I find it incomprehensible that an unelected, highly paid officer of the city council is busy trying to spread the blame over the city council’s financial crisis when what he should be doing is putting the city’s own finances in order.
JOHN-PAUL CAMPION,
Leader of Wyre Forest District Council.
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