Ealing Council
Ealing Council
Freedom of Information
David Marsden
3rd Floor, North East
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Perceval House
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London W5 2HL
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25th July 2023
Dear David Marsden,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received by the Council on 6th July 2023.
Your request:
The Leader of Ealing Council, Peter Mason, wrote and published an open letter
(https://www.ealing.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/16565/to_cash_12_july_2021.pdf) to Angela
Fonso and local campaign group CASH (Clean Air for Southall and Hayes) dated 12 July 2021,
in which Cllr Mason pledged that "[t]he Council will not take any further sponsorship from
Berkeley Group."
Last week, the new Mayor of Ealing tweeted
(https://twitter.com/MayorofEaling/status/1674705592974286850) to thank Berkeley Group for
their sponsorship of an event the Mayor had organised and hosted.
Can you tell me:
1) the monetary value of "sponsorship" Ealing Council (councillors, officers, Mayor) has
accepted from Berkeley Group since Cllr Mason's letter of 12 July 2021, and for which events?
Information not held as no sponsorship money has been accepted.
The Mayor of Ealing had sought sponsors for his Pride reception. Berkeley responded to this request
and offered a £500 contribution to the event. However, while the offer was publicly acknowledged, the
money was never accepted or received because the Council is committed to not accept sponsorship
from Berkeley for corporate events.
2) the Ealing Council policy for councillors, officers, Mayor, for accepting sponsorship,
hospitality and gifts from developers, and to ensure that the Council will not take any further
sponsorship from Berkeley Group, as Cllr Mason pledged two years ago?
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The rules around Gifts and Hospitality for Officers and Members can be found here:
Code of Conduct for Councillors
Employees’ Code of Conduct
These relate to gifts and hospitality to individual councillors and officers, not corporate events or
corporate sponsorships. The Council is free to take whatever Corporate Sponsorships it sees
appropriate, however the Leader clearly set out in the letter attached that we do not accept
sponsorship for corporate events from Berkeley.
3) the action Ealing Council will take to prevent councillors, officers, Mayor accepting
sponsorship, hospitality and gifts from developers in future, and publicly returning
sponsorship already received from Berkeley Group in order to uphold Cllr Mason's public
pledge?
Note that Berkeley Group operates with many different aliases, so please include "Berkeley
Homes", "Berkeley", "Berkeley Foundation", "St James", "St William", "St George", "Southall
Waterside", "The Green Quarter", "Jags Sanghera" in any search queries.
This information is included in the Code of Conduct.
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Freedom of Information
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Yours sincerely,
Kam Ubhi
Information Governance Officer
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