A recent freedom of information request has uncovered that Westminster Council has wasted nearly £1 Million on their website since 2008!
Let's compare this with other organizations average annual costs incurred for running websites:
For a 2 year period:
Typical business website: £6,594
Typical Council website: £81,834
Westminster website: £940,521
In fact your local Branch runs a website (you're looking at it now) & we're more than happy to share the costs with you. Over the last 2 years we have spent approximately £6,500 on our website, including all the set up costs, on-going maintenance, & updates, etc.
What is Westminster doing? How can they have possibly spent this much on their website? Where has the money gone? Why has it cost more than 10 times the cost of a typical Council website?
Who in the Council is responsible for this outrageous bill?
Followers of our website will be aware that this is not the first time we've caught WCC wasting money at the same time as they cut posts to save money. Let's have a quick review:
- £2 Million in uncollected rents for April '08 to April ‘09
- Up to £750K on re-tendering the parking contract
- £900 per day (£216K per year) the Council are spending on just one contractor.
- £20K being spent to keep an empty building standing.
- £23K having supper at the Civic Dinner.
And not to forget this new waste of money:
- £1 Million on their website.
That brings the running total of waste up to:
£4,009,000
Perhaps you'd like to ask about these figures when you or someone you know receives their vulnerability letter!
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