Bradford Council will again be asked to release a draft report into the authority's controversial Asset Management Project next week.

The authority's Labour group is demanding the document, drawn up by the Audit Commission, be shared among all political parties.

It has so far only been seen by top officers and senior members of the ruling conservative group.

Almost £3 million was spent setting up a deal which would see Council-run facilities managed by a private firm.

In June, however, following concerns about how the deal was handled, the Council's asset management director Linda Carmichael was suspended.

The Audit Commission is still investigating what happened and is finalising its full report into the matter. But Labour group leader Councillor Ian Greenwood (Lab, Little Horton) will next week repeat calls for its interim report to be shared.

He has put a motion before members of full Council asking them to back his calls.

He said: "We will not accept a situation where a minority group will debar an area of concern from the Council. It would not be appropriate were it to come from a party with overall control, but certainly not when a group of 38 members say the full 90 cannot see it."

Council leader Councillor Margaret Eaton (Con, Bingley Rural) and her deputy Councillor Kris Hopkins (Con, Worth Valley) were unavailable for comment yesterday.

However in December Councillor Eaton made clear her belief that only the full report should be made public: "While the investigation is going on it is inappropriate for anything to go into the public domain."

This is latest in a series of attempts by Coun Greenwood to see the report. In November, his bid through the Freedom of Information Act failed on the grounds that it would soon be published, and that it wasn't in the public interest to publish only part of it.