Repeatedly, I read letters in The Argus from people complaining that, although their council tax increase every year is well above inflation, Brighton and Hove City Council provides nothing extra to justify these increases.
Most of them rightly ask what their money is being spent on.
Somebody must know. Yet no one ever gives us the details. MPs have recently been forced to surrender details of how much they spend on, for example, road, rail, air and bicycle travel, following a complaint under the Freedom of Information Act.
Perhaps someone can start prising such figures from our council.
-Shirley Patterson, Brighton
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