Written evidence received by the Parliamentary
Commissioner for Standards
1. Letter
to the Commissioner from Mr Peter Golds, 3 September 2009
I am a resident of the Poplar and Canning Town constituency
represented by Jim Fitzpatrick.
I enclose a copy of an unsolicited letter on House
of Commons official notepaper and using a House of Commons franked
envelope inviting residents to meet Mr Fitzpatrick. I have retained
the originals.
It is less than a year from an election and a meeting
event such as this should be organised by the member concerned
using his or her own money, or that of their political party.
As a taxpayer I do not expect my local MP to be sending
out large numbers of these letters at my expense. I can confirm
that many were sent to residents in [...] and other residents
have expressed surprise that they should be paying for this.
I look forward to your investigating this case and
Mr Fitzpatrick reimbursing the Commons authorities for using our
money for such purposes.
I note that his colleague Ann Keen has had to reimburse
money for doing this.
3 September 2009
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