Chair and Vice Chair of CLAE
Dear Sir or Madam,
Under the management arrangements of the CLAE the Secretary of State is required to designate one of the members of the CLAE as Chair and one as Vice Chair. This can only be after they have been appointed to the position of Local Government Ombudsmen by the Crown.
Please provide a copy of the letter from the Secretary of State identifying that REDMOND has been designated as Chair of the CLAE and that WHITE has been designated as Vice Chair.
If no written designation has been made in relation to WHITE or REDMOND holding these positions please identify if this is the case, additionally please identify all payments that have been made in respect of WHITE and/or REDMOND being identified as having received as a consequence of these positions for each year that they have been identified in CLAE documentation as holding the positions.
Yours faithfully,
Stuart HARDWICKE CARRUTHERS
Dear Mr Hardwicke Carruthers
This is to acknowledge receipt of your email request, received on Monday
28 July.
I will respond to this as soon as possible. I will aim to reply within
the 20-working day target (which would be by 26 August). If I am unable
to do so, I will write to you again explaining why.
Yours sincerely
Hilary Pook
Communications & Records Manager
Local Government Ombudsman's Office
Tel: 020 7217 4734
www.lgo.org.uk
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Dear Mr Hardwicke Carruthers
Please find attached a letter in response to the request below, along
with another attachment referred to in the letter.
Yours sincerely
Hilary Pook
Communications & Records Manager
Local Government Ombudsman's Office
Tel: 020 7217 4734
www.lgo.org.uk
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Gadawodd A Johnson anodiad ()
Looks to me that White was never legally appointed to the position of Vice Chair by the DCLG. Looks like Redmond appointed him and the DCLG just accepted it. That is not the same as formally appointing him as Vice Chair. You are on to something Stuart keep up the pressure.
Gadawodd Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS anodiad ()
http://www.archive.official-documents.co...
there is a very clear breach of recommendation 36 and 37 of the Nolan Committee's recommendations, and as such a very clear breach of the CLAE's governing documents. It is to be hoped that CIPFA and SOLACE and DCLG have not followed this lead.
36. All appointments to executive NDPBs or NHS bodies should be made after advice from a panel or committee which includes an independent element. [C]
37. Each panel or committee should have at least one independent member and independent members should normally account for at least a third of membership. [C]
The issues are partly being discussed here:
http://www.amv3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?...
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Gadawodd Trevor R Nunn anodiad ()
The letter provided by Pook is not a letter from the DCLG appointing White as Vice Chair. All it does is agree to Redmond's recommendations. Where is the formal letter of appointment to Vice Chair???????