Some Deletions and Additions

 Hmmmm....

Well, things change.... one file disappears and another appears! The Environment Agency non compliance with The Ombudsman's recommendations persists.

Going back to look at the PACAC correspondence archive (i.e. on the Parliamentary record) I found the pdf  embedded below which perhaps... notionally replaces the document bundle saved here in a previous post...  All a bit stealthy really - even our MP's office (Michelle Donelan) has been trying to get sight of the full text reply for literally months...

 Well... "what could have caused this?" indeed!

Another document has appeared though, - by digital magick

Wouldn't have anything to do with swerving controversy around Sir James's March 2023 leaving do? - would it? /sarc. 

It's useful I feel to compare the August 2022 apparent receipt of Bevan's reply to the PACAC timeline laid out in the previous post

It would seem (given the date on Bevan's letter) that PACAC chair was aware of the EA's decision to evade compliance and chose not to share that with PACAC committee members and our MP Michelle Donelan. So did Mr Wragg make an "on the record" inquiry to the EA and hide the reply - for 9 months - past the annual PHSO scrutiny meeting where the matter in question was raised?

Given that Sir James's / EA peer reviewers have explicitly stated that no proper assessment of damages can be performed without a forensic financial audit - it seems rather clear that the EA have little interest in proper procedure where they can try and force through a minimization of their financial exposure and try and place themselves beyond any reasonable expectation of accountability...

The EA did the dirty deeds PHSO found, agreed to PHSO's recommendations as to remedy - and now seek to set their own punishment well outside the scope of what was the lowest estimate of their liability to damages (from PHSO).

It's worth repeating that the EA's own peer reviewers declared that any proper settlement of damages was reliant on a forensic financial audit - not some arbitrarily low figure arrived at by officials keen to distance themselves from their wrongdoing and set a figure that they know does not cover their victims out of pocket direct costs over the 12 years this debacle has been running let alone the actual financial impact on the people they harmed.

 

It looks like Sir James has expunged / deleted his EA Twitter account @JamesBevanEA