Single person discount reviews

Reported recently in Wirral, Cheshire West and Chester, and (with waffle) in Wokingham.

What these reports miss is any indication of the proportion of residents in each place claiming the discount. South Derbyshire (also announcing a review) does tell us that

On average, six per cent of those claiming the discount – the equivalent of around 700 people in South Derbyshire – are not entitled to it.

But every council should be doing a review. Presumably the most cost effective methods are discussed at these expensive conferences we read about, doubtless with the aid of the management figures denied to the general public.

Without the (simple) key numbers, the public can't hold councils to account on this in any meaningful way.

How convenient!