8. Letter to Mr Jim Fitzpatrick MP
from the Commissioner, 4 November 2009
Thank you very much for your letter of 28 October
responding to mine of 21 October asking for some further information
to help me in considering this complaint about your use of House
of Commons stationery.
I was very grateful for such a prompt and full response.
You have sent me some 27 examples of casework, plus a casework
reference list of 9 further constituents. Of the 27 examples you
have sent me, 10 appear to date from 2009. The rest relate to
casework from previous years, the earliest being 2004. The casework
list does not identify the date when the constituent raised the
issue with you.
In the light of this, and before I seek the advice
of the Department of Resources, it would be very helpful to know
whether this proportion of this year's cases to others is a fair
reflection of the two hundred invitations you sent out in pre-paid
envelopes. It would also be helpful if you could give me your
estimate of how many of the 200 people to whom you sent your invitation
in pre-paid envelopes were current cases, namely there were current
and outstanding issues raised by them to which you still had to
reply.
Once I have your response, I would hope then to seek
the advice of the Department of Resources. If you can do that
within the next two weeks, that would be most helpful.
Thank you again.
4 November 2009
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