Durham County Council is required to publish all payments over £500, however it is paying out millions of pounds of payments to individuals and is using data protection laws to ensure that no-one knows who these payments are made to. Anyone can go and view the files, with literally hundreds of payments every month REDACTED. given the recent horrendous reports of waste and mismanagement I fail to see how the general public of County Durham can trust this.
Here is the link the pages with the information on and below that the report of this in the Northern Echo today.
http://www.durham.gov.uk/Pages/Service.aspx?ServiceId=8465