Public Service and Local Government




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Email to the LGO from the complainant dated 13th August 2010

Re: Complaint against Portsmouth City Council

Dear Mr Miles,

Thank you for your email. I have also put in an FOI request to the Council for this information. They, the Council, have no exemption whatsoever from the FOI Act not to provide this information. I should also point out to you, although I should not have to, that in the interests of justice, any response from the Council should be provided to me to comment on, particularly if they have marked it confidential, for the simple reason that not only have I caught them lying to the Local Government Ombudsman before, but I have been able to prove it - not that the Ombudsman did anything about it! I trust that you are well aware that any cover up will meet with wide publication and not be at all in the interests of the Local Government Ombudsman.

Your sincerely,

Keith Edmunds