IT comes as no surprise that Wirral Council has once again been caught frivolously spending taxpayers' money on over-inflated consultancy fees as a recent Freedom of Information request by Cllr Ian Lewis has revealed (Wirral Globe, May 14).

The jobs for which these external consultants are being generously paid are sadly nothing more than council non-jobs that could be have been performed by existing council employees, especially when you consider the level of remuneration of the council chief executive and his assistants.

Paul Nuttall, UKIP Wirral MEP