{"id":49664,"date":"2014-11-04T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8e100d818481185c54dec8d60fc7e3dc"},"modified":"2014-11-04T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T10:31:00","slug":"statement-to-parliament-london-borough-of-tower-hamlets-council-inspection-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49664","title":{"rendered":"Statement to Parliament: London Borough of Tower Hamlets council: written statement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In my written statement of 7 April 2014, official report, column 2WS<\/a>, I stated that my department had received documents which made serious allegations about poor governance and financial management at the council of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. <\/p>\n

I also noted that ministers had long been concerned about a worrying pattern of divisive community politics and alleged mismanagement of public money by the mayoral administration in Tower Hamlets.<\/p>\n

On 4 April 2014<\/a>, I appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC<\/abbr>) to carry out an inspection of the local authority\u2019s compliance with its best value duty and to report their findings to me by 30 June 2014. <\/p>\n

On 30 June<\/a>, I told the House that PwC<\/abbr> had informed me that the council had considerably delayed the investigation by delaying the provision of key information or simply not providing it at all, and that consequently I was extending the period for PwC<\/abbr> to report.<\/p>\n

PwC<\/abbr> have now completed their inspection; I am today putting a copy of their report in the Library of the House and publishing the report<\/a> on my department\u2019s website. As statute requires, PwC<\/abbr> is now also sending a copy of the report to the council.<\/p>\n

I have been carefully considering the report, and later today I will make an oral statement updating the House on the action I propose to take, having regard to the report and other relevant information available to me about the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. <\/p>\n

I hope this will provide an opportunity for Honourable Members to read through the detailed and comprehensive report before my oral statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Secretary of State announces the publication of an independent inspection report of the governance of Tower Hamlets council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49696,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49664\/revisions\/49696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}