A decision to spend £35,000 on consultants to advise on boundary changes has been criticised by opposition Liberal Democrats on Hull City Council.
The Mail reported last week on the decision record signed by Labour council leader Steve Brady authorising the contract with researchers from Birmingham University's Institute of Local Government Studies.
They are expected to advise and support a commission of inquiry being set up by the city council to examine the boundary issue.
But Lib Dem Councillor Claire Thomas said the money would be better spent elsewhere.
She said: "Labour councillors have to get real and start spending money on services that residents need.
"They have their priorities all wrong. In the past couple of years they have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on consultants to advise on job cuts, then they prioritised spending £386,000 to buy Pacific Exchange and now they are blowing £35,000."
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