Liverpool Council ’s energy contract failure is a case study of the wider issues the authority faces according to a government appointed official overseeing it.
In a rare public intervention, lead commissioner Mike Cunningham said the council still had a “long distance to travel” in terms of getting back on its feet as councillors debated the expensive failings around its electricity provision. A devastating report was published into the energy contract howler at the Cunard Building earlier last week laying bare the details of what happened.
Accountants Mazars, who were commissioned by the Mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson, to carry out an external investigation have identified gaps in the council’s own audit process, criticised individual decision making and accused the authority of failing to learn lessons from previous contract renewals. Members of the audit committee had their first opportunity to publicly discuss the findings at Liverpool Town Hall tonight.
