Failure to comply with a council's fraud and irregularities policies

Sheila Oliver made this Freedom of Information request to Audit Commission This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

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Dear Audit Commission,

I have been trying for over two years to raise the issue of a capital project which is costing millions of pounds more than it should. All requests for explanations have been refused and all council meeting questions on the subject have been illegally banned by the Chief Executive of Stockport Council, John Schulz, Councillor Goddard, the Leader, Councillor Derbyshire, the Deputy Leader and Mark Weldon, Executive Councillor for Children and Young People's Directorate.

The Council's own Fraud and Financial Irregularities policies lay down strict guidelines regarding the action a Council must take when these issues have been raised. I have also tried without success to raise with the Director of Finance, Steve Houston, an apparent miscalculation in a report regarding this issue submitted to the Executive Committee of over a quarter of a million pounds. There is simply stonewalling silence from everyone for some reason.

My Freedom of Information request is to know what punishments and or sanctions exist to be used against senior council officers and councillors who ignore the Council's own Fraud and Irregularities policies, should a loss to the taxpayer/council taxpayer of several millions of pounds be caused by their actions?

Yours faithfully,

Sheila Oliver

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Dear Ms Oliver

Please find attached:

* The Audit Commission's response to your request for information - RFI
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* The Audit Commission's Access to Information Complaint and Appeal
Procedure

Yours sincerely

Shaun Kavanagh
Public Enquiries Officer
part of the Chief Executive's Office

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Dear Audit Commission,

Many thanks for your response. I shall contact Mr. Watkinson as you suggest.

Yours faithfully,

Sheila Oliver

Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation ()

Is my local MP Andrew Stunell having a laugh here? I repeatedly
asked him to make Stockport Council reply to questions, which they
have avoided for about four years:-

http://www.libdemvoice.org/andrew-stunel...

I shall ask him again for help and post his response, or lack of
it, on this site.

Have a look at this frightening You Tube clip of the brown asbestos
"experts" languidly and unscienficially removing brown asbestos
from the school site:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0rCPnP5H9o