It seems the company involved in the flatgate scandel is now being probed by the competition regulator. Mitie Group may have breached the law in some way & that possible illegal behaviour, may, have something to do with contracts for immigrant removal centres.
The following article about Mitie Group & Boris’s flat makes for interesting reading.
Newly-released Cabinet Office records show that a facility management firm called Mitie has been paid at least £699,000 in February and March this year for work on Downing Street renovations. The various Cabinet Office receipts for this work say that Mitie has been tasked with ‘additions – buildings’ on ‘Downing Street’ and the ‘70 Whitehall Estate Modernisation Programme’.
Mitie’s executive team and board includes several individuals with ties to the Government and the Conservative Party. Simon Venn, the firm’s Chief Government and Strategy Officer, acts as a ‘senior advisor to the UK Government,’ according to his profile on the Mitie website. Venn’s profile claims that he was appointed to Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Overseas Business Risk (OBR) board in 2010, which “provides security advice and intelligence to UK companies”.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Venn also claims to be an ‘Outsourcing Industry Forum’ advisor to the Cabinet Office. We understand that the forum allows the Government to liaise with various representatives from outsourcing firms that are engaged in public work.
Meanwhile, one of the members of the Mitie board is Philippa Roe, known as Baroness Couttie. For five years between 2012 and 2017, Baroness Couttie served as the leader of Westminster City Council, representing the Conservative Party. She was nominated for a peerage in former Prime Minister David Cameron’s resignation honours list after unsuccessfully seeking the Conservative Party’s nomination for London Mayor in 2016. Baroness Couttie was appointed to the Mitie board in November 2017.
Mitie’s links to Conservative peers do not end there. Baroness McGregor-Smith, nominated as a Conservative life peer in August 2015, served as the CEO of Mitie for more than a decade – from 2006 to 2017. Baroness McGregor-Smith currently sits as a non-executive director of the Department for Education.
Another member of the Mitie board, appointed in June 2017, is Nivedita Krishnamurthy Bhagat – who for 12 years worked as a senior staff member at Infosys Technologies, a firm co-founded by Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law, N. R. Narayana Murthy.
