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Email Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 6:23 AM

Dear Mr Bradshaw

The Devon County Council has recently released cost information for my
FOI cases since 2010. They claim they have spent £22,200 on legal costs and travel
expenses, but do not include man-hours for dealing with my complaints.

Firstly, I do not believe these recently-released figures and would
envisage their costs to be much higher. Secondly, I don’t accept the DCC should
have incurred a single penny costs because the information I sought from them on
the PFI schools and the Exeter Chiefs Bridge could and should have been
released without cost under the FOIA 2000.

As you are aware, both case continue – the Rugby Bridge is due for a Court
of Appeal retrial later this year and the PFI schools is still before the Upper
Tribunal; hence further cost impact on the public purse. The £20k costs could
double before the end of the year

Moreover and more importantly, these costs do not appear in the DCC audit
report records – hence they are fudging legal cost records.

I call upon my MP to write to the CEO of the DCC seeking clarification as to why
they have incurred such costs in the first place and why they continue to accrue such
costs, and please ask them why such costs are not included in their annual audit
reports?

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – 28 July 2014 17:18

Dear Mr Bradshaw MP

I strongly recommend you contact the HSE for a copy of their ” restricted
reports” on the two downed wind turbines.

The HSE inspector is called Darren Nash and he can be contacted on 0117
9886126 or Darren. nash@hse.gsi.gov.uk

The HSE makes very disconcerting reading.

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – 29 July 2014 14:56

Dear Mr Bradshaw

I have just spoken with a representative from the Health and Safety Executive regional office and
requested them to send me a PDF copy of their two recent reports ref the two wind Turbines which collapsed last year. I was informed they were unable to send
me a copy because they have recently moved to a new office; hence, they have no
broadband, emails etc.

Wouldn’t you think they would ensure such vital services are installed before they moved! Further obsufication, no doubt.

Have you requested your reports yet?

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – 29 July 2014 20:05

Attn Darren Nash. HSE Inspector

Dear Mr Nash

Polite follow up please for a PDF copy of the 2 restricted reports of which
the HSE kindly sent my hard copy files last week.

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield

http://ico.org.uk/~/media/documents/decisionnotices/2014/fs_50522278.ashx

Email sent – 01 August 2014 07:42

Dear Mr Bradshaw

I believe there is prima facia evidence available to request a public
inquiry into the two collapsed wind Turbines in the South West last year.

There are huge discrepancies between Mr Robert Pearce’s letter dated July
15 2014 to your Exeter Office and the two restricted reports from the HSE
Inspector ref service order 4260329 for the Bradworthy collapse and 4260326 for
the North Cornwall collapse……

Please advise me how I can request a Public Inquiry into the criminal
negligence by the Health and Safety Executive.

Quite frankly , the manner and quality of the two
HSE ” restricted reports” confirms a total lack of knowledge and professionalism by the HSE. The two HSE reports should be sending alarm bells ringing at the Dept of
Energy and the Treasury.

For your information, action and file.

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield

PS

Have you read these two HSE reports yet? If not, why not?

Dear Mr Bradshaw

In the event you can’t or won’t insist on a public Inquiry into the
shennagins at the Health and Safety Executive regarding the wind Turbine debacle, I propose you ask the two
following questions at the next Prime Minister’s Question Time:-

1st Question

Does the Prime Minister think it is right and proper or indeed legal that one of my
constituents in Exeter has been Blacklisted by the Health and Safety Executive, and placed on a lifetime
email ban for raising H&S issues?

2nd question

Is the Minister for Energy satisfied with the role of the HSE regarding wind turbines after the five collapsed wind turbine collapses nationwide last year?

Alan M
Dransfield

PS You will understand question number 2 better after reading the Micky
Mouse reports on the two collapsed WT

Email sent 01 August 2014 14:38

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Further to my earlier email ref the Health and Safety Executive email blacklisting,

I have received another letter from the SW region HQ of the HSE today; Mr
Harvey Wild, their Head f Operations, who insists any correspondence from me
must be by hard copy only and addressed to him only. I find such instructions to
be Draconian. Why should I be cost-impacted for stationary and stamps just to
suit someone running the HSE?

I do not have a problem being limited in restricting my email to Mr Wild, but I do not accept they can dictate my mode of communication in this day and
age. The HSE is 40 years old today and they insist that the General Public must
write letters in hard copy.

Does my MP think it acceptable for the HSE to place me on such bans?

I now have an electronic copy of the 2 ” Restricted reports”; would you
like me to send you a copy?

With thanks

Alan M Dransfield