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In this morning's update:- Andy Burnham's GMCA lent £55.7m in 2017 to the Manchester Life companies, Manchester City Council's joint venture with Abu Dhabi United Group, owner of Manchester City. Asked about these loans on Good Morning Britain, Angela Rayner said:- "all of that is transparent. The Prime Minister says he is happy for people to see that." Yesterday, a day late, GMCA refused to release the loan documents, calling my request "vexatious". In the same letter it admits there is "a legitimate public interest in transparency and accountability concerning GMCA's use of public money". I asked for just five documents:- the two reports councillors approved the loans on, and the three loan agreements. Burnham told Parliament on 12 October "all my dealings will be published", and promised to put out "everything that I have done working with them" as Mayor. GMCA has told the press it has no active partnerships with Abu Dhabi United Group. If that is the case, why hide it? #ProjectCleanCity

In this morning's update:- Andy Burnham's GMCA lent £55.7m in 2017 to the Manchester Life companies, Manchester City Council's joint venture with Abu Dhabi United Group, owner of Manchester City. Asked about these loans on Good Morning Britain, Angela Rayner said:- "all of that is transparent. The Prime Minister says he is happy for people to see that." Yesterday, a day late, GMCA refused to release the loan documents, calling my request "vexatious". In the same letter it admits there is "a legitimate public interest in transparency and accountability concerning GMCA's use of public money". I asked for just five documents:- the two reports councillors approved the loans on, and the three loan agreements. Burnham told Parliament on 12 October "all my dealings will be published", and promised to put out "everything that I have done working with them" as Mayor. GMCA has told the press it has no active partnerships with Abu Dhabi United Group. If that is the case, why hide it? #ProjectCleanCity

Andy Burnham's GMCA gave a Chinese developer £34.1m. Manchester City Council promised to promote its interests in developing Victoria North. And the Council is still hiding the deal. The developer is Hong Kong-listed Far East Consortium (FEC). Today Manchester City Council upheld its refusal of my request for the full joint venture agreement as "manifestly unreasonable" (EIR 12(4)(b)). What it has released:- • 54 pages, 43 of them redacted • 13 pages released as entirely black sheets • 37.4% of the text hidden • Clauses 13 to 16 hidden in full • The "Site" is defined as "the Northern Gateway", and the rest is blacked out (see for yourself below) Yet in the agreement FEC consented to the Council publishing it "in its entirety". The Council now calls that "commonplace". Nearly £97m of public money has gone in already, including £34.1m from Burnham's GMCA, which has also given a grant whose details it has never published. And new money is going in:- up to £28m more agreed in September, taking it past £120m, before a £60m new tram stop there. Why hide it? #ProjectCleanCity