Public Service and Local Government




OMBUDSMAN WATCHERS RESOURCE CENTRE

Email to the LGO from the complainant dated 23rd August 2010

Dear Mr Miles,

I am in receipt of your letter dated 19 August 2010, with the Council's response to my complaint. Many of the details of my complaint have been ignored, which leads me to question whether you put them to the Council in the first place. I have therefore put in another Freedom of Information request for you to provide me with a copy of the letter that you sent to the Council regarding my complaint, which you have never sent to me.

Further to the local press revelations, that I sent to you, showing that the Chief Executive Portsmouth City Council and the Member of Parliament, who also happens to be a Councillor holding the planning portfolio, are both Freemasons. I would like a firm assurance from the Ombudsman herself that at no stage will my complaint be handled by anyone who is a member of the Freemasons.

When I have this information, I will then be in a  position to respond to the Council's inadequate response.

Yours sincerely,

Keith Edmunds