Plymouth

April 2006 edition of the Devonport Column reporting on Common Purpose corruption in Plymouth. Common Purpose graduates took control of key regeneration projects in the city and particularly the New Deal for Communities programme in Devonport a deprived area with very high unemployment close to the Royal Navy Dockyard. In 10 years some £25 million had been spent on nebulous projects, money into people's pockets and a large proportion of the original residents were forced out, to be replaced with expensive elitest waterside housing.

Exchange of letters in 2005 where member of the public tries to obtain details of Common Purpose training and expenditure by Plymouth City Council. No detail of the expenditure of public money is obtained. The Council gives a vague expenditure of £53,700.

DLO declares £37,000 spent on CP training as at 2005. Their letter seems a little uncertain quoting "on the information we have available". Is information being witheld from Freedom of Information release? CP operates under the Chatham House rule for secrecy in meetings. How can this be justified within a national defence organisation?

Letter dated 2005 giving details of GOSW staff trained by Common Purpose. £60120 declared 2001 to 2005. This is just one of the UK's pro EU Regional Government Offices.

CP Plymouth Council Officer Robert Plumb recruits in public time for CP Your Turn. Having received an email from Angela Fox Common Purpose asking if he could recommend an Advisor for a Your Turn workshop at Plymouth High School for girls, he forwards the email to his colleagues for a volunteer. As usual the CP requirement is processed during the working day 13.36, and the Advisor requirement is during the working day - 09.00 and 13.00 12 May 2004. Yet CP tells the public that individuals do CP work in their private time. Why should they lie?