PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
HARINGEY COUNCIL (24 January 1994)

That this House notes that Labour controlled Haringey Council is ú564.9 million in debt, that is ú3,000 per resident; that it has only collected 40 per cent. of its council tax and is owed ú10 million in rent arrears; understand that it has lost ú3.2 million in fraud since 1988-89 and is unable to explain why it spent ú28 million more than planned restoring Alexandra Palace; is aware that there have been up to 67 cases of financial irregularity reported; and calls upon the Leader of the Labour Party, to condemn such incompetence, mismanagement and fraud which has cost the residents of Haringey and British taxpayers such vast amounts of money.

Sponsored by:
Sir Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative)