Bankrupt Birmingham council is paying out legal fees of more than £1 million a month to a variety of solicitors and barristers.
In February alone, the council paid at least £1.5 million, including £685,411 to Bevan Brittan LLP.
In the first three months of the year, legal fees came to £3,648,861. Oddly, the figures for March do not say who the recipients might have been.
In April, the city entered into contracts with three law firms providing advice on the provision of affordable housing. Bevan Brittan and Trowers & Hamlins are getting £166,666.70 each while Browne Jacobson will receive £551,274.20.
Three property agencies, Savills, Lambert Smith Hampton and Avison Young (UK) Limited are to be paid £83,333.33 as part of the same initiative which aims to replace bed and breakfast accommodation for homeless families with houses.
Meanwhile, as the bin strike drags on, the poor local taxpayers will at least have new wheelie bins to chuck their rubbish in.
Their cash-strapped council has kicked off the new financial year by signing a contract worth £8,867,500 with IPL Plastics (UK) Ltd for the supply of Wheeled Recycling Bins, Food Caddies and Containers. Somebody’s cleaning up.
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