1992 Righton Report - Bottomley
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Virginia Bottomley asked for a full report into the Peter Righton affair, could you please send me a redacted copy
Yours faithfully,
Cathy Fox
Dear Ms Fox,
Please find attached the Department of Health and Social Care's response
to your recent FOI request (our ref: FOI-1126499 )
Yours sincerely,
Edward Franklyn
Freedom of Information team
Department of Health and Social Care
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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Thankyou
Please could you tell me what happened to it?
Yours faithfully,
Cathy Fox
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Please could you tell me what happened to the report which you must obviously have had. Where is it now, where was it transferred to or when was it destroyed?
Yours faithfully,
Cathy Fox
Our
ref: DE-1150700
Dear
Ms Fox,
Thank you for your further correspondence of 1 October about an historical
report. I have been asked to reply.
Officials
have advised that the Righton report was not a Department of Health
publication
and, as such, does not form part of the Department’s archive.
I
am sorry I cannot be more helpful.
Yours sincerely,
Natasha Slade
Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries
Department of Health and Social Care
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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Whether the Righton Report was a Health Dept publication or not, the Health secretary asked for it , even perhaps commissioned it and yet now DHSC claim they do not have a copy.
I am simply asking under S16 what happened to it? Is the health department so slack and careless that they just lose thee reports with no trace. If so an investigation should be held as to what happened to it and how to change procedures so that Reports are not just randomly or deliberately lost.
Yours faithfully,
Cathy Fox
Our ref: DE-1155590
Dear Ms Fox,
Thank you for your further correspondence of 5 November about an
historical
report. I have been asked to reply.
I appreciate your concerns about
this matter. However, I note that you
have written to the Department of Health and Social Care previously on a
number
of occasions about this issue and I am afraid that there is nothing
further
that I can add.
I am sorry if this is not the reply
that you were hoping for, but as there is nothing further that the
Department
can add, we must now consider this matter to be closed. Unless you raise
a new question, any further
letters sent to the Department will be logged but may not receive a reply.
Yours sincerely,
Rory Howard
Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries
Department of Health and Social Care
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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
I note your reply which is a typical bureaucratic reply, designed not to even attempt to answer the question. It also covers up the mysterious disappearance of an important document of national importance which was in the hands of department that appears incompetent to look after things of this kind, or perhaps things even more sinister, that DHSC is refusing to even look into.
Yours faithfully,
Cathy Fox
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Richard Card left an annotation ()
Dear Cathy Fox
In 1990 the late Sir John Stradling Thomas MP wrote to DHSS minister Tony Newton.
Newton seems to have passed the concerns, expressed by Sir John, to Earl Ferrers (Police Minister) and to Mayhew Attorney General.
Sir John's concerns were deaths in Sue Ryder HQ Cavendish Suffolk 1972 and death registration malpractice/identity thefts and an unlawful police no go area allegedly placing Sue Ryder and others beyond the law (MI5 liaison with Special Branch) defied in 1972 by Welsh Regional Crime
officers. )
Sir John was also asking about the release scheme of German held postwar internees run by Sue Ryder and her charity trustee Airey Neave.
At the Home Office the reply to Sir John was (I found out) signed by a typist. The civil servant dictating the reply only came into the office to deal with this correspondence then disappeared. I recall an indignant civil servant saying "There are other people at the Home Office you know"
Sir John was still contemplating whether to raise inquiry into handling of his correspondence when he died March 91 at his Dolphin Square Home.
At the time of Sir John's death the Mayhew/Janner War Crimes Bill was being bullied through Commons by Mayhew using Parliament Act. A process that Sir John Stradling Thomas could have thrown a spanner in the works. With questions about identity thefts and the status under War Crimes Bill of former enemy settled in UK illegally
The usefulness of Janner to Mayhew 91 has not been weighed re decision not to charge Janner with CSA at that time.
Proper inquiry requires that the association of Sue Ryder, Airey Neave, Harry Sporborg and Lord HENNIKER be fully answered. 1944 et seq. re GLADIO
On the face of it inviting Righton to live on Henniker Estate was extremely "Clumsy" to invite him to live in an alleged unlawful police no go area. Winterkey's progress on this seems stationary
Best wishes Richard