Jas Athwal must be investigated

I say "Claire Hamilton, the Redbridge Chief Executive has refused to say within my deadline whether Ms Sandhu, the Redbridge Monitoring Officer investigated Jas Athwal last year when the BBC story broke about his unlicensed slum flats. The reason for non-disclosure appears to be that the Council believe Jas Athwal's privacy must be protected. This appears a nonsense, at the time of the BBC story, Jas Athwal was a councillor and MP and so bound by the Nolan code of conduct. This means that, unlike a private individual, he faces an investigation if there is an apparent breach of this code. Since the BBC story broke three MPs, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner and a Southwark Councillor Michael Situ all appeared in breach of Nolan and were all investigated. The refusal of Ms Hamilton, Ms Sandu, Cllr Rai and Jas Athwal to say whether an investigation took place causes a reasonable suspicion of misconduct in public office. Especially as unlike Rachel Reeves, Jas Athwa...

 Ms Hamilton, the Redbridge Chief Executive wrote back to me today to say: I wrote back as follows: I will write further when I have more news.

 I sent the email below earlier today, I send an update in due course:  "Dear Ms Hamilton, Ms Sandhu and Cllr Rai.  I wrote to Ms Hamilton and Cllr Rai on the 20 th November 2025. A holding reply was sent to me stating Ms Sandhu would reply to me. However, she has not and the two questions in my email of 20 th November remain unanswered: the questions are listed below. "a – Has an investigation has taken place into Jas Athwal by the monitoring officer about the Joe Pike story? Especially since Mr Athwal relied upon a managing agent for not having a licence and the poor state of his properties. The Redbridge landlord register suggests he did not have an agent and so leads to the concern that he or his family managed the properties.    b- Did your landlord licensing department investigate Jas Athwal's properties for the reasons given above and if so what was their conclusions?"  Unless I receive a substantive reply to my questions by close of business on 3r...