Are you getting value from North East Lincolnshire Council services?

NORTH East Lincolnshire Council has a budget of £400 million to provide services to residents.

The council's ability to deliver those services, including highways, parks and refuse collection will no longer be inspected independently by The Audit Commission.

The new Coalition Government has said the annual inspection of council performance will be scrapped in favour of leaving local authorities to drive up their own standards.

Details of council finances will, however, continue to be published in the authority's annual set of accounts. The latest – for the financial year from April 1 2009 to March 31 this year – has been published this week and was discussed in a meeting of the council's audit committee.

We have already revealed the details of the report regarding salaries and pensions. In today's Grimsby Telegraph, Local Government Reporter Peter Craig look at other areas of spending in more detail.