Ministerial Responsibility For Kings Science Academy Fraud Investigation

EDM number 823 in 2013-14, proposed by George Galloway on 28/11/2013.
Categorised under the topic of Schools.

That this House notes that the Secretary of State for Education was fully briefed on the conclusions of the internal audit of Kings Science Academy, Bradford, which identified misuse and misappropriation of public funds and on the reference of these matters to the police in April 2013; further notes that he was fully briefed on the decision of the police not to investigate these matters in September 2013; further notes that the Secretary of State and the Department for Education have blamed the police for the failure to investigate and drawn attention to the apology for this failure by the police; further notes that the Secretary of State failed to ensure that the Department for Education met police officers and provided them with the full and unredacted internal audit report either in April or September 2013; further notes that an investigation was launched only after a whistleblower forced the Department for Education to publish the redacted internal audit report and exposed the allegations of misuse and misappropriation; believes therefore that the Secretary of State bears some responsibility for the failure of the police to investigate this misuse and misappropriation when it was first notified to the police and subsequently in September when he was notified of their decision not to investigate; and therefore calls on the Secretary of State also to apologise for this failure to investigate.

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