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Jim Dowd is Labour MP for Lewisham West in 2007. Dowd was listed as a 'parliamentary patron' to [[TOAST]].<ref>This list of patrons is still (as of 18 December 2007) on the TOAST website: [http://www.toast-uk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=153&Itemid=137 Parliamentary Patrons], accessed 18 December 2007.</ref> In response to a letter of enquiry Dowd stated that as far as he was aware he had not been approached to be a patron and while he had met with representatives of TOAST, he did not act in any advisory or 'patron' capacity.<ref>Telephone conversation between Jim Dowd and David Miller, 18 December 2007</ref> | Jim Dowd is Labour MP for Lewisham West in 2007. Dowd was listed as a 'parliamentary patron' to [[TOAST]].<ref>This list of patrons is still (as of 18 December 2007) on the TOAST website: [http://www.toast-uk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=153&Itemid=137 Parliamentary Patrons], accessed 18 December 2007.</ref> In response to a letter of enquiry Dowd stated that as far as he was aware he had not been approached to be a patron and while he had met with representatives of TOAST, he did not act in any advisory or 'patron' capacity.<ref>Telephone conversation between Jim Dowd and David Miller, 18 December 2007</ref> | ||
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| + | :Further to our telephone conversation I can confirm that I have no recollection of ever being asked, or agreeing to serve as a Patron of TOAST. In any event, apart from attending one or more of their occasional receptions at the Commons, I cannot recall any other direct contact with them - except for the appearance of one of their members as a witness before the Health Select Committee. I was also unaware of the source of any their of funding as, so far as I can understand it, were the other members of the committee who took part in the enquiry into obesity, to whom I have spoken.<ref>From: Jim HoC [mailto:xxx] Sent: 28 December 2007 14:13 To: David Miller Subject: Fw: TOAST</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 10:57, 10 January 2008
Jim Dowd is Labour MP for Lewisham West in 2007. Dowd was listed as a 'parliamentary patron' to TOAST.[1] In response to a letter of enquiry Dowd stated that as far as he was aware he had not been approached to be a patron and while he had met with representatives of TOAST, he did not act in any advisory or 'patron' capacity.[2]
In a later email Dowd wrote:
- Further to our telephone conversation I can confirm that I have no recollection of ever being asked, or agreeing to serve as a Patron of TOAST. In any event, apart from attending one or more of their occasional receptions at the Commons, I cannot recall any other direct contact with them - except for the appearance of one of their members as a witness before the Health Select Committee. I was also unaware of the source of any their of funding as, so far as I can understand it, were the other members of the committee who took part in the enquiry into obesity, to whom I have spoken.[3]
Notes
- ↑ This list of patrons is still (as of 18 December 2007) on the TOAST website: Parliamentary Patrons, accessed 18 December 2007.
- ↑ Telephone conversation between Jim Dowd and David Miller, 18 December 2007
- ↑ From: Jim HoC [1] Sent: 28 December 2007 14:13 To: David Miller Subject: Fw: TOAST
