Annex i4
Letter to Ms Maria Fernandes from the
then Chairman of the Committee on Standards and Privileges
PAYMENTS
FROM
THE
HINDUJA
FAMILY
The Committee agreed today to require further information
to be provided to the Commissioner on payments made by the Hinduja
family or Foundation to Mapesbury Communications.
We understand that Mapesbury Communications organised
a reception at the House of Commons which was funded through the
company by the Hinduja Foundation.
Would you please provide the Commissioner with the
following information, together with the accounts and the underlying
records which support it:
1. Did Mr Vaz sponsor this event at the House
of Commons?
2. Did the Hinduja Foundation make a payment
to Mapesbury Communications in respect of this event?
3. For what purpose was the payment made?
4. What was the date of the event?
5. Please state the amount, the date paid and
details of the account into which it was paid.
Would you also please inform the Commissioner whether
the company has received any other payment, at any time, for any
purpose from any member of the Hinduja family or their Foundation.
Mr Vaz informed me yesterday that he believed that
you had included a payment from the Hinduja Foundation in the
list you recently showed me. Please would you also provide the
Commissioner with the extract from the list which shows this payment.
20 March 2001
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