7. Letter to the Commissioner from
Mr Jim Fitzpatrick MP, 28 October 2009
Thank you for your letter of 21 October. I hereby
set out my response to the five points you need darifying:
1. Pre-paid envelopes were used for constituents
who had contacted me previously, of their own accord.
Other constituents were invited by direct contact
which involved distributing information about the coffee morning
via door-knocking and canvassing sessions, and other meetings.
My team and I also leafleted the surrounding area, knowing it
to suffer problems of crime and anti-social behaviour.
2. The mail-out was from the stationery allowance,
and the Communications Expenditure was used for hand-delivered
material, as outlined above.
The second part of your correspondence:
1. Approximately 200.
2. Of those contacted by letter, please find enclosed,
as requested, examples of initiating correspondence, including
e-mails; or evidence of contact via advice surgery attendance,
street encounters, and similar in which constituents sought to
enlist my help and support.
3. I can only apologise for the error. The household
in question in is registered on my office's computer system. As
I explained when we met, the address is the home of Councillor
Golds and [...] ... As a local Councillor, Mr Golds would be on
several fields, and I can only assume this was somehow transposed
in error onto the 'anti-social behaviour' list. In twelve and
a half years, I remember no other similar error concerning [ ...
], nor any other constituent. Again, I can only apologise.
I hope this provides the clarification you seek.
Please let me know if I can assist further.
28 October 2009
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