£270,000 spent on consultants
LONDONDERRY'S municipal authority spent over a quarter of a million pounds on consultants last year - a rise of over £100,000 on the previous year.
Derry City Council spent 270,751 on consultants in 2008/9. The figure was revealed by the Minister of the Environment Edwin Poots in response to a written query at the Stormont Assembly.
The local authority increased its expenditure from 153,668 in 2007/8. But the council still spent less on consultants last year than its counterpart in Belfast, Newtownabbey, Ards, Down, Dungannon and South Tyrone, Craigavon and Ballymena.
Mr Poots also revealed that Strabane District Council spent 156,988 on consultants in 2008/9 whilst Limavady Borough Council spent 41,471 during the same financial year.