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Peterborough’s figures have been affected by its urban population, high areas of deprivation, people in low-paying employment, the high proportion of workers in industries such as warehousing, distribution and agriculture - which require them going into work - and the high percentage of people from ethnic minority backgrounds who are believed to be at a higher risk, Dr Robin added.
She continued: “We went into November lockdown with Covid rates lower than the national average. Our rates didn’t fall and we came out higher than the national average.
“We went into the January lockdown with Covid rates lower than the national average. Our rates have fallen, which is good. They’ve almost halved. But they’ve fallen more slowly than the national fall.
This Land Ltd – previously known as the Cambridgeshire Housing and Investment Company Ltd – was set up to provide an additional income stream for the council.
In essence the plan was simple and that was for This Land Ltd to acquire council owned sites, develop them, and then to reap the financial benefit.
But the methodology of how those sites would be transferred, the capitalisation of This Land Ltd and the changing nature of housing has meant not everything has been plain sailing.
Mr Lewis offered county councillors an optimistic ‘sound bite’ briefing in his February report.
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She says that there was no other auditor within the service with the experience and expertise necessary to complete this complex piece of work.
At December’s special meeting of the audit and accounts committee on December 23 “it was agreed that I would take personal oversight of appointing an appropriately qualified external auditor following a swift procurement exercise – with a view to them starting work immediately”.
Her reasons were set out in a public statement which said she was under pressure from council leader Steve Count and audit committee chairman Mike Shellens to wrap up the report quickly.
Mrs Beasley said there was also the need to release the findings of the report prior to May’s elections and the period ahead of it known as purdah which prohibits much council activity.
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