Hull council pays ‘consultants’ £1m to oversee job cuts

By The Newsroom

Published 19th Nov 2012, 12:03 BST

Paying consultants £1.1m to oversee a council job cutting programme has been branded a “slap in the face for the taxpayer”.

Consulting giant Deloitte has been drafted in to modernise Hull Council’s business support section – a move which will see up to 240 jobs axed.

The cash-strapped authority, which shed 1,000 jobs last year, has already paid Deloitte £330,000 to help “replace a largely paper-driven bureaucracy with a more focused, modern and efficient business model”.