Annex 156
E-mail to the Parliamentary Commissioner
for Standards and Mr John Rafferty
| To: | The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
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| From: | John Rafferty |
| Date: | 21 June 2000 18:54 |
| Subject: | Reply to your letter of 21 June
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Thank you very much for your letter of 21 June requesting
further details of my employment with the Labour Party.
At the request of the Labour Party I applied for,
and was granted, 4 months unpaid leave of absence from my post
as Director of the National Lottery Charities Board. Labour Party
Headquarters at Millbank Tower negotiated with me a consultancy
contract to engage me as coordinator of the General Election Campaign
in Scotland. The contract period was from 12 January 1999 to 6
May 1999 (Polling Day).
During the period of the contract I was asked by
Mr Dewar to take the post of Chief of Staff which commenced on
17 May. The Labour Party extended the consultancy contract to
that date.
I was not dismissed from the consultancy post with
the Labour Party. As you will note from the above the circumstances
were quite the opposite.
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