Mar 01 - GSD Says Government Is Not Facilitating Flow Of Important Information To Parliament
The GSD says that, “despite preaching transparency the Government evidently has no desire to facilitate the flow of financial or other important information to Parliament.”
The party refers to recent answers to questions in Parliament in which the Government told the Leader of the Opposition, Daniel Feetham, to conduct multiple searches at the Land Registry to work out how many mortgages have been granted by the Gibraltar International Bank in respect of low cost housing.
Opposition MP Roy Clinton was also told to go to Companies House to obtain a copy their accounts. The GSD says that these suggestions are “impractical.”
GSD MP with shadow responsibility for public finance Roy Clinton stated:
“I asked a simple question in Parliament last week in relation to the provision of the audited accounts of the Gibraltar International Bank. The response from the Government was unhelpful stating that I could obtain these from Companies House along with the public in due course and the Chief Minister then took it upon himself to mock the request stating that he was not a messenger. Given this discourteous attitude, yesterday I wrote to the Chief Executive Officer of the Bank as an Opposition MP requesting that the Board of the Bank consider sending a copy of their audited accounts to me in Parliament when they are available. This is a nationally owned bank and thus of public and parliamentary interest.”
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