Diane McFarlane to Andi Ali. False sexual allegations - Not a breach of the Civil Service Code. Honest!!!

The lengths the Civil Service Commission will go not to investigate breaches of the Civil Service Code (despite receiving over a MILLION POUNDS of tax payers money to do precisely that) has to be seen to be believed. (Seriously, this is the conversation I had with one of their Case Managers, Diane McFarlane recently.

   “Mr Ali, Richard Summersgill, the Director of the Tax Credit Office has confirmed his staff made false sexual allegations against you but has begged us not to treat it as a breach of the Code. We have looked into this and we tend to agree with him it is not a breach of the Code. What on earth made you think it was?”

Well eh! I spluttered after I picked myself up from the floor:

  “Under section three of the Civil Service Code its states that all Civil Servants are expected to uphold the key  Civil Service values of vales of honesty, integrity, objectivity and impartially.  So it must be a breach of the Code because it is very dishonest to make false sexual allegations against somebody isn’t it?”

You would have thought that such a statement would have been blazingly obvious but not to the Civil Service Commission apparently, who told me they would look into it and slammed the phone down.

(Oh, and Richard Summersgill is still begging them not to take action -although why, nobody in the Commission will say).