14. Letter to Mr Jim Fitzpatrick MP
from the Commissioner, 7 December 2009
Thank you for your letter of 2 December responding
to mine of 17 November about this complaint in respect of your
use of House of Commons pre-paid envelopes.
I was most grateful for this further information.
I do not think I need trouble you at this stage to let me have
lists of anti social behaviour complaints from the other wards
to which you have written in the last two years. Unless you tell
me otherwise, I shall assume that the Millwall examples are broadly
representative of the sort of matters raised in the other wards.
I shall assume also that you started to use pre-paid envelopes
for such events two years ago (but not before).
I also do not think I need ask you at this stage
for a clearer idea of the number of pre-paid House of Commons
envelopes you may have used in this way over the last two years.
Unless you tell me otherwise, I consider that a reasonable estimate,
based on the frequency of those events and the number of pre-paid
envelopes used for the occasion which gave rise to the original
complaint, may be that it was up to 1,500 such envelopes.
I am copying your letter, and mine, to the Department
of Resources so that they can take it into account in preparing
their advice. If you would like to modify any of the broad assumptions
I have made in this letter, please let me know. Otherwise, I would
be back in touch when I hear from the Department of Resources.
Thank you for your help with this.
7 December 2009
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