Barnet's supplier payments for September are out. First of all the good news. The spend with Comensura seems to be slowing slightly with spend in September down to £1.28 million and a year end forecast down to £18.47 million, still more than last year but starting to fall. I did raise a very real concern that the figures being provided to the Financial Performance and Contracts Committee do not reconcile with the figures published in the suppliers payments. As yet no one from the Council has come back to me as why there is such a large difference. This is the last month of Comensura figures as the contract has now been awarded to a company called Matrix SCM but I will continue to monitor their spend.
This month Capita received a bumper payment of just over £8 million on the CSG contract and a more modest £726,066 on the Re contract. We will have to wait and see what the contract review brings and whether Councillors will actually agree to bring services back in-house and finally get these costs under control.
I will of course continue to keep a close eye on Barnet' spending.
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