Dear Sir or Madam,
'Elected Members must Register and Declare an interest as a
Freemason if their membership includes membership of the charitable
arm of what would otherwise be a non-charitable association, i.e.
the Grand Charity, unless they have opted out of such membership.'
To clarify, according to the above statement it appears Councillors
are able to hide whether or not they belong to a Masonic Lodge.
Therefore, could you please refer to and forward the legislation,
which supports the KCC statement?
And name any further Councillors apart from those already supplied:
Conservative County Councillor Tunbridge Wells South
James Scholes (Wickham Court Masonic Lodge Bromley)
Conservative County Councillor Faversham
Thomas Gates (Manor of Faversham Masonic Lodge)
as requested?
Yours sincerely,
S Smith
-----Original Message-----
Dear Mr Smith
Thank you for your email.
I am sorry you are unhappy with my response to your request for
information.
However, as we did not withhold any information from you nor did we
exceed the statutory timescales for replying to you, we are unclear
as to why you are seeking an internal review of our response and
would be grateful if you could clarify why you are dissatisfied as
we are unable to proceed without further clarification.
Best regards
Caroline Dodge Corporate Access to Information Coordinator, Chief
Executive's Department Kent County Council, Legal & Democratic
Services, Room 1.94, Sessions House, County Hall, Maidstone. ME14
1XQ. Tel: 01622 221652 - Fax: 01622 694383
http://www.kent.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/about-the-council/contact-u
s/access-to-info.htm
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us/access-to-info.htm>
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