Alan Dransfield's Blog

Email sent – 24 December 2014 13:18

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Please see the following quotation
from Councillor Clatworthy ref Asset Management at the Devon County
Council

“My
Role

I
have Cabinet responsibility for the management of the Council’s finances,
property and trading units, the use of its assets and the development of its
estates, including the schools’ and education property portfolio, the
development of the Council’s procurement systems and oversight of the Council’s
annual budget setting, medium and long term financial planning, monitoring of
capital and revenue expenditure, year end closure of the accounts and Treasury
Management activities so as to achieve value for money in the delivery of
Council services.”

In
the event that the DCC does not hold an approved Asset Management Plan in place it
would automatically follow that the DCC do not have any Transparency , Accountability or Security ( TAS) in place.

As
MP for Exeter, can you please explain to me how the DCC can hope to achieve TAS
in the absence of any approved Asset Management Plan? If my memory serves me
correctly, all local authorities are obligated to have an approved AMP in place
as an integral part of their Fiscal Audit remit.

I
would be most grateful if you would write to Mr Eric Pickles seeking a
explanation how local Governments can adhere to central government fiscal
guidelines in the absence of any fundamental Asset Management Plan.

In
its current state of affairs the DCC Fiscal and Procurement Department is wide
open to fraud and theft of public funds.

With thanks

Alan M Dransfield

BTW

Merry Christmas and I hope Your New Year’s
resolution is to take Dransfield seriously?!

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Exeter-schools-builder-sues-architects-1m/story-19975693-detail/story.html

Email sent 14 August 2014 15:24

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Please see the attached document from 2009 which clearly
stated the Devon County Council would undertake Lighting Risk Assessment for all schools. As you
are aware, none of the Devon schools under the DCC has had Lighting Risk
Assessment carried out.

As you are aware, such failure is in breach of duty
of care, it is in breach of all Health & Safety Executive guidelines and is in breach of Lightning
Protection standards BS/EN 62305.

Would you be so kind as to write to the DCC
Chief Executive Officer to ask him why this Lightning Risk Assessment has not been conducted,
please excuse the pun.

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M
Dransfield

Email sent – 02
June 2014 07:35

Dear Mr Bradshaw

You will recall
that you sent a letter to the DCC several weeks ago about the general H&S
irregularities at the 6 PFI schools and you also advised me you
would send me a copy of their response. Polite reminder please, I have not received
any further notification from you on this matter.

Ditto for the
H&S survey on the Exeter Chiefs Rugby Stadium and Bridge.

Polite follow up
please on both topics.

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – 23 May 2014 07:47

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Just in case you are not aware, the school drinking water
fountains are still out of bounds due to the contaminated drinking water
situation, which has been apparent since the school was commissioned in 2006.

It begs the question how is the food being washed, prepared
and cooked?

For your information action and files.

Yours in disgust

Dransfield

Email sent – 23 May 2014 08:43

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Please see the
Ofsted report for St
Peters
school and quite frankly it is disgraceful and you should be kicking doors down
at the DCC/ LEA and the schools.

Yours in disgust

Alan M Dransfield

http://www.st-peters-exeter.devon.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Ofsted-Report-23-24-October-2013.pdf

From: Alan Dransfield
Date: Sun, May 18, 2014 at
10:14 PM
Subject: Ofsted-Report-23-24-October-2013.pdf
To: Ben BRADSHAW
Cc: Richard Bailey, Mark Thorogood Dear Mr Bradshaw

Please see the OFSTED report for St Peters School Exeter
dated Oct 2013 , which is scathing report of incompetence and neglect by the
Teachers and Local Education Authority.

The fact that St Peter schools has not had any potable
drinking water for the past 7/8Years
– could this be the root cause of the education failure at this school? Poor bloody kids have been dehydrated for
nearly a decade.

I call upon my MP to take this matter up with Michael Gove,
who has the audacity to call himself Minister of Education.

Dransfield

http://www.st-peters-exeter.devon.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Ofsted-Report-23-24-October-2013.pdf

Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 6:51 AM

Subject: YOUR CORRESPONDENCE

Dear Mr Bradshaw

I must express my concerns for your choice of correspondence,i.e, I note you prefer the use of hard copy correspondence delivered by post.

As a former Environmental Minister, I would have envisaged that you would have used electronic correspondence to your constituents because it is cheaper, quicker and more environmental friendly.

We have over 600 MP’s nationwide; hence, can you imagine the costs for stationary, postage etc, if all MPs chose this mode of correspondence?

Why hasn’t the Government gone paperless?

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield