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To Her Majesty’s Treasury by F Mason (Account suspended) 6 October 2009
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F Mason (Account suspended) made this Freedom of Information request to Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
Office of the Leader of the House of Commons did not have the information requested.
From: F Mason (Account suspended)
4 October 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB7ABAZ0QT0
Please watch the above and answer all the outstanding questions
contained within, this is required under the FOI Act.
Yours faithfully,
F Mason
From: F Mason (Account suspended)
5 October 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
It is probably wise to supply a transcribed version as a preventive
measure for the Public.
Between April 2008 and March 2009, CAFCASS had 6,465 cases on its
books.
That’s nearly 18 new cases a day or one new case every thirty
minutes of the working day.
Source: CAFCASS
Over the last four fiscal years, CAFCASS has dealt with 26,104
separate cases.
At a conservatively estimated cost of proceedings in Family Court
of £400,000 per case, that means CAFCASS has been instrumental in
spending £10.4 billion of public funds, minimum, over four years.
Source: CAFCASS
That’s £2.6 billion a year, not counting rollover cases. Or to put
it another way;
Between 21 municipal areas which CAFCASS is divided into, £124.3
million per area per year.
Source:CAFCASS
Where does this money come from?
Who pays CAFCASS?
Funding is received in part from Central Government.
This does not answer the burning question; Where does the rest of
the money come from?
We’re talking about litigation funding from Central Government
straight to CAFCASS that is equal to fully one tenth of the
Interest accrued on the Central Government (i.e. National) Debt
through 2008/09.
Where does this money come from?
We haven’t even started talking about;
Salaries for CAFCASS, Social Services or their ancillary staff yet.
Who controls the money?
Who do CAFCASS answer to?
Who accounts for the actions of CAFCASS?
Who legislates for CAFCASS?
Who represents CAFCASS in Parliament?
Who do you complain to when CAFCASS goes bad?
To who do we turn to put right that which CAFCASS gets wrong so
often?
Local Government? Central Government? Corporate Interests? Civil
Liberties groups? Or each other?
Kind regards,
F Mason
James Moore left an annotation (13 October 2009)
thank me later. More questions that will probably remain unanswered will appear as youtube videos in the near future.
Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
20 October 2009
Dear Mr Mason,
I refer to our response to you (attached) regarding your recent Freedom of
Information request. You submitted 2 requests regarding Cafcass; one to
Cabinet Office and the other to Leader of the House of Commons. I did not
make it clear in my email to you that our response included the Office of
Leader of the House of Commons, which for the purposes of the Freedom of
Information Act falls under the Cabinet Office.
Kind regards,
FOI Team
Cabinet Office
Tel: 020 7276 2473
The Cabinet Office computer systems may be monitored and communications
carried on them recorded, to secure the effective operation of the system
and for other lawful purposes.
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Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.
LS Palmer (Account suspended) left an annotation (29 November 2010)
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Ms Chadwick (Account suspended) left an annotation ( 4 October 2009)
Shame on you All
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