Councillor Jeanette Sunderland (Lib Dem, Idle) is asking Bradford Council to set out clearly what benefits the £160 million contract to transform the authority's computer systems has brought to the citizens of Bradford.

She said: "Councillors have been given pages of information about how the contract has benefited the Council and how staff have reacted.

"The Council has clearly installed a great deal of new software and changed a great many of its systems.

"The Bradford-i project is one of the largest projects undertaken by any authority in the country with many different systems being changed.

"The report to councillors shows that in the main most things are going well but the real test is whether things got better for the people of Bradford.

"They are our customers and they should feel the benefits of such a change."

Coun Sunderland is asking the Partnership Board of Bradford and Serco, the company running the day-to-day ICT services to report to the next meeting of the Corporate Improvement Committee the about the benefits residents should expect to see as a result of the project.

"We also want to see how the Council itself has changed," she said. "What difference has been made to how it operates as a result of spending all of this money?

"The project was sold to councillors on how we would improve the way the Council works to provide better services to both internal and external customers."

She is asking for the information to be made available at the next committee meeting on February 12.