Complaint against Rt Hon Tony McNulty MP

D. Speers made this Freedom of Information request to House of Commons

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From: D. Speers

12 November 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Re: The Committee of Standard and Privileges report into the
complaint against Rt Hon Tony McNulty MP.

Please can you advise:
1) How much Parliamentary time was given to this complaint?
2) What public costs were incurred in addressing this complaint?
3) Please provide information on the House of Commons definition of
an upheld complaint.

Yours faithfully,

D. Speers

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From: FOICOMMONS
House of Commons

12 November 2009

Dear D. Speers

Thank you for your request for information dated 12th November, received by us on the same day, which is copied below.

We will endeavour to respond to your request promptly but in any case within 20 working days i.e on or before 10th December 2009.

If you have any queries about your request, please use the request number quoted in the subject line of this email.

Yours sincerely

Vanessa Cubillo
Freedom of Information Assistant

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From: D. Speers

12 November 2009

Dear FOICOMMONS,

Many thanks, I appreciate your time.

Yours sincerely,

D. Speers

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D. Speers left an annotation (12 November 2009)

Parliamentary expenses entitlement? Now the costs involved in reviewing those expenses will be borne by us no doubt. But It seems that the 'expenses Tsar' Professor Sir Ian Kennedy has stated that the recommendations made in the recent report (which we paid for!)do not have to implemented and may not be. It may be worth reading Professor Kennedy's response to the Parliamentary Health Select Committee's Report into Patient Safetythis Parliamentary Report link on the responses by CQC/Monitor and Professor Sir Ian Kennedy (published yesterday) to the Parliamentary Health Select Committee Report into Patient Safety and ask as the Chair of the Healthcare Commission had he used the same ill conceived logic?

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa...
This Report really is a damming indictment of just how damaged things are within our healthcare system. We are assured by the Complaints Lead for England and Wales:“The PHSO and her office exist to provide a service to the public by undertaking independent investigations into complaints that government departments, a range of other public bodies in the UK, and the NHS in England have not acted properly or fairly or have provided a poor service” ....unless recommendations are monitored and implemented then its a complete waste of public money having unenforceable regulation.

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From: FOICOMMONS
House of Commons

10 December 2009

Dear D.Speers

Thank you for your request for information which is copied below.In response to your questions:

Q 1 and 2
As the Commissioner’s office do not allocate staff time to particular inquiries, this information is not held by the House of Commons.

You can find details of the staff and budget of the Commissioner’s office in his last annual Report, available on the Parliamentary webpages: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa... .

Q3
We are not sure what is required but I refer you to the Commissioner's last Annual Report (first link below). Chapter 3 gives details of complaints upheld in 2008-09. You may also find it useful to read Procedural Note 1 available on the parliamentary website, although this does not use that term (second link below).

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa...
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/uploa...

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Yours sincerely,

Bob Castle
Head of Information Rights and Information Security

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