Review is launched into chief officers’ expenses
Monday 18th May 2009, 2:56PM BST.
States chief executive Bill Ogley
A FULL review of public sector expense claims has been launched following Friday’s revelations that the chief executive of Health claimed for missed guitar lessons.
Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf said that the review would ensure that all claims were ‘appropriate’. It is understood that it will focus on the procedure used to sign off senior officers’ expense claims.
The JEP has learned that such claims are approved by a chief officer’s finance director. Questions are therefore being asked about how appropriate it is that a boss’s claim is being put before one of his or her subordinates.
There is, at this stage, no suggestion that Health chief Mike Pollard, who earns in excess of £150,000 a year, broke any rules or guidelines in claiming for the lessons.
States chief executive Bill Ogley said that he was confident his senior colleagues would be shown to have behaved properly.
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It seems that Bill Ogley is prejudging the outcome here.
I think we’ll find that top civil servants and politicians have extreme difficulty in understanding that behaving “properly” (that is, according to their rules) is not the same as acting ethically.
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What a waste of time and money!
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In the interest of openess and transparency could all expense claims made for the last 10 years be published.
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Another bum note and evidence that civil servents are just stringing the public along.
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Whilst mr pollard may not have strictly broken any rule…..Three thousand pounds a week and putting in a further claim for guitar lessons is just plain taking the Mickey
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on that wage he should pay for his own lessons and if he can,t afford them he should look for a better paid job
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