Intended to streamline council payments and HR systems, the flagship system was expected to cost £19m. But after three years of delays, it was revealed in May it could cost up to £100m.
On Tuesday evening, the government’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) said it had been “engaging regularly” with the council in recent months over the “pressures it faces”, and had “expressed serious concern over its governance arrangements”.
“We have requested written assurances from the leader of the council that any decision regarding the council’s issues over equal pay represents the best value for taxpayers’ money,” it added.
Mr Cotton, who is not currently in the city due to “long standing family commitments”, insisted to…
