Departmental Representative on Post Office’s Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee

Dear Post Office Limited,

According to POL’s 2012-13 Annual Report, the BIS Departmental Representative, Susannah Storey of the Shared Executive, attended all POL’s Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee meetings within this financial year:

(POL Annual Report 2012-13, p44).
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There was no departmental representative on the POL ARC Committee 2013-14:

(POL Annual Report 2013-14, p54).
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According to the 2015-16 POL Annual Report, the BIS/UKGI representative, Richard Callard, joined POL’s ARC Committee part way through the financial year:

(POL Annual Report 2015-16, p22 & 25).
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i) Please can you reveal the date of the last ARC Committee meeting attended by Susannah Storey and the date of the first ARC Committee meeting attended by Richard Callard?

ii) Please can you supply any documentation regarding the reasons for the departmental representative being withdrawn then re-instated from POL’s ARC Committee?

iii) Please can you supply documents which show whether these decisions were made by POL, the Department for BIS, the Shared Executive or its successor UKGI?

Yours faithfully,
Eleanor Shaikh