A STATES department has spent over £4.4 million paying consultants since the start of ministerial government, according to a group of politicians trying to stop the new incinerator being built.
And the spokesman for the Stop the Incinerator Now Group, Deputy Trevor Pitman, said that the Transport and Technical Services Department might as well be burning taxpayers’ cash in the new incinerator the way it has spent on external consultancy fees.
The Deputy, a member of the STING group of four politicians, was ‘horrified’ when he eventually obtained figures from the new Transport Minister Mike Jackson for work done by consultants on the solid waste strategy.
He said that STING now wanted an inquiry to find out exactly what the huge sums had been spent on.
Deputy Pitman added that he had to push for the numbers to be publicly released after an initial request by Deputy Daniel Wimberley had been ‘overlooked’.
