Opposition group leader, Independent councillor Azhar Ali, said he would meet chief executive Mark Wynn to discuss his concerns about how any Doge visit would sit with the local authority’s GDPR obligations.
Ali said: “People call it Doge – I call it dodgy, there’s no structure to it.
“I just think this is a way of deflecting from the difficult decisions that the new Reform administration needs to make.”
No date for when the Doge team will arrive at County Hall in Preston has been set, something the Conservative group leader Aidy Riggott said was “disappointing”.
“We are now almost 12 weeks on from the elections and… the county council still hasn’t provide any update or shared any communication with councillors as to how this process might work, or what safeguards are in place.”
Rigott said that while he would welcome Doge’s visit, it was “highly unlikely” that the team would uncover “any scandal or ridiculous waste of taxpayers’ money”.
But Reform UK’s Evans said: “We’ve already found £500m government bonds bought by the last administration that are only worth £120m – we are finding out quite a lot.”