608) Sajid Javid: "Grenfell has shaken my comprehension of being in office."

To The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary,

and,

To the Chair, Ombudsman Services.

For Clarity - Attempt 608.

608) Sajid Javid: "Grenfell has shaken my comprehension of being in office."

Dear Mr Clark and Lord Tim Clement Jones,

Sajid Javid has recently said, "Grenfell has shaken my comprehension of being in office." 

He clearly needed to have gotten out of his office more often, associated with the victims of appallingly regulated markets and seen at first hand what de-regulated markets and light-touch regulation actually meant for their victims.

It seems to have taken Sajid Javid an awful long time to have arrived at his new comprehension and one can only speculate as to what he was comprehending previously. 

Not any of our 81 recorded emails to him when he was BIS Secretary from 2015-16, that's for sure.

Emails which attempted to bring to his comprehension the abject failure of the RICS to adequately regulate their Members and  (Un)Regulated Firms which allowed poorly regulated surveyors to, "develop practices that do not work in the customer's interests." (OFT) 

He insists that, "as a minister I have always been prepared to make tough decisions" which is all very well and fine. However, being prepared to make tough decisions is one thing - actually taking them, actually carrying them out, is of a different magnitude altogether.

When it came to challenging the RICS over its micro-management of OS:Property to ensure, "the effective resolution of disputes" Sajid Javid appears to have bottled out, it being one tough decision too-far.

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, why do the RICS closely monitor OS:Property for the way it, "effectively resolves complaints" when it can't adequately regulate its Members and (Un)Regulated Firms in the first place?

Q. Mr Clark, as someone whose department has a close and continuing relationship with Ombudsman Services, do assure consumers that when they take their complaints to OS:Property each and every one of them will be meticulously investigated by a fair and independent ombudsman?

Yours sincerely,

Steve Gilbert - Workstock number 510458.

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