Dear Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman,
I note from Sir Alex Allans recent Review report onto ex.Deputy PHSO Mick Martin that:

'The Ombudsman told me that, as a measure to ensure the continuing good standing of senior PHSO staff, she had now decided that they would be asked to provide information and certify that they were meeting the Nolan Principles of Public Life each year. Any breach of those principles would be dealt with under PH50's disciplinary procedures.

Please advisde: as PHSO had 'now decided' what has been in place to ensure fairness by Senior PHSO staff up until 'Now'. As the Nolan Principles have been in place since 1995 (21 years)How have the Nolan Principles of
Selflessness
Integrity
Objectivity
Accountability
Openness
Honesty
Leadership been met?
I understand the PHSO Principles have been adopted by many too and I assume there are examples of this work?

Yours faithfully,

D. Speers

informationrights@ombudsman.org.uk, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman


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Your information request (FDN-270643)

 

I am writing in response to your email of 23 September in which you asked
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the Nolan principles, since 1995.  You also state ‘I understand the PHSO
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of this work?’

 

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From: D. Speers [mailto:[FOI #360806 email]]
Sent: 23 September 2016 12:24
To: InformationRights
Subject: FDN-270643 - Freedom of Information request - Nolan Principles

 

Dear Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman,
I note from Sir Alex Allans recent Review report onto ex.Deputy PHSO Mick
Martin that:

'The Ombudsman told me that, as a measure to ensure the continuing good
standing of senior PHSO staff, she had now decided that they would be
asked to provide information and certify that they were meeting the Nolan
Principles of Public Life each year. Any breach of those principles would
be dealt with under PH50's disciplinary procedures.

Please advisde: as PHSO had 'now decided' what has been in place to ensure
fairness by Senior PHSO staff up until 'Now'. As the Nolan Principles have
been in place since 1995 (21 years)How have the Nolan Principles of
    Selflessness
    Integrity
    Objectivity
    Accountability
    Openness
    Honesty
    Leadership been met?
 I understand the PHSO Principles have been adopted by many too and I
assume there are examples of this work?

Yours faithfully,

D. Speers

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Dear Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's handling of my FOI request 'Nolan Principles'.

My request is basically asking How the Nolan Principles of :
Selflessness
Integrity
Objectivity
Accountability
Openness
Honesty
Leadership have been applied in case of Deputy PHSO MIck Martin?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/n...

Yours faithfully,

D. Speers

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D. Speers left an annotation ()

Sorry I don't have a named person to write to.

Aka: Yours sincerely

Freedom of Information and Data Protection Officer Team

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Dear D Speers,

 

Please find enclosed a review of our handling of your information request.

 

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From: D. Speers [mailto:[FOI #360806 email]]
Sent: 21 October 2016 11:36
To: InformationRights
Subject: (FDN-270643) Internal review of Freedom of Information request -
Nolan Principles

 

Dear Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information
reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Parliamentary and Health
Service Ombudsman's handling of my FOI request 'Nolan Principles'.

My request is basically asking How  the Nolan Principles of :
Selflessness
Integrity
Objectivity
Accountability
Openness
Honesty
Leadership have been  applied in case of Deputy PHSO MIck Martin?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this address:
[6]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/n...

Yours faithfully,

D. Speers

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[Name Removed] (Account suspended) left an annotation ()

Since Dame Julie Mellor received the letter and Tribunal verdict from Helen Marks and apparently ignored both for 8 months -until publically outed by the HSJournal- that exactly doesn't conform to the Nolan principles. Neither does it explain why former Equalities Head Dame Julie missed the fact that a female had been eased out of her job - after refusing the advances of a male chairman.

Seemingly she then read the read the principles and decided that the PHSO employees were subject to them, during being investigated by Sir Alex Allen, who then produced such a critical report.

Some complainants have stated their opinion that the Ombudsman has never considered itself to be hampered by these inconvenient principles.

http://phsothefacts.com

Brenda Prentice left an annotation ()

The reason the Nolan Principals are not followed in the PHSO is that they are unaccountable so they don't have to....simple.