Council defends spending £88,000 to send lockdown letters with no new information to District s 220,000 households
The letter sent out to households
BRADFORD Council has defended spending over £88,000 sending a letter explaining the November national lockdown to every household in the District. Conservative Councillors had questioned the reasoning behind sending a letter out in early November informing households of the imminent second lockdown. They argued that the letter, informing people of the restrictions and sent to almost 220,000 households, contained no new information. But Bradford Council Leader Susan Hinchcliffe claimed it would be a “dereliction of duty” for the Council to not have provided all the District’s residents with the same information about lockdown, arguing that is how health inequalities are created.