register of interests gifts and hospitality

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please provide copies of the register of gifts and hospitality
maintained by the CLAE for the last ten years.

Please additionally provide a copy of the review of each teams
gifts and hospitality register as identified in your annual
accounts.

Yours faithfully,

Stuart Hardwicke Carruthers

Dear Foi Officer,

(1) Mr Karney's authority is disputed;

(2) It is in the public interest for the information to be
released.

(3) It would be much simpler if you simply published your minutes
with the associated papers.. you would have a substantial decrease
in FOI's;

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Foi Officer,

Then why was it identified in the Annual Accounts..

The normal reason for a review is that issues are identified.. you
have already identified in your accounts that the expense claims of
the LGO's reduced by about 50 per cent following the John Bourne
scandal.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Foi Officer,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bourn

"Sir John Bourn, then an officer of the British House of Commons,
was holder of the office of Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG)
and, as such, head of the National Audit Office. He took up his
post in 1988 after a series of senior appointments in the Ministry
of Defence and the Northern Ireland Office. In May 1998 he was
awarded an Honorary Degree from the Open University as Doctor of
the University. He was also the first Auditor General for Wales
until Jeremy Colman took over this role on 1 April 2005.[1]

On October 25, 2007, his office announced that he would step down
early in 2008 after 20 years in the job to avoid any conflicts of
interest with other posts he holds.

The decision followed criticism from opposition parties and the
media over Bourn's high spending, such as a recent overseas trip
that ran up taxpayer costs of more than £16,000. His expenses and
conducts have frequently been highlighted in the satirical magazine
Private Eye. In September 2008 the magazine published a special
report, 'The Bourn Complicity', alleging that under his leadership
numerous government expenditure failings escaped scrutiny while
Bourn (frequently accompanied by his wife) went on unnecessary and
extravagant foreign trips, and accepted lavish hospitality from
contractors.

Bourn said in a statement he would retire on January 31, 2008 in
order to avoid any conflict with his post as chairman of the
Professional Oversight Board, a body that oversees professional
accountancy bodies."

You will notice the similarities.. POB = CIPFA ?

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Foi Officer,

Internal Review is requested.

The minute of this item will appear in the Audit Committee minutes
for July which will go to the next Commission meeting, and appear
on our website in due course.

The Minutes have not been added to your website.

I am quite happy to be forwarded paper copies of your registers if
you don't have a scanner.

I understood that the CLAE had considerable high speed document
scanning machinery.

As the issue has been subject to an Audit Committee report.. it is
anticipated that they contain information that is of interest.

Most people are not able to travel to London at the whim of the
CLAE

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Foi Officer,

many thanks.. and what about the Committee Report???? as a
Governance issue this would have been raised if there was an issue

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS