Monday 24 February 2014

Non-Executive Director Nadhim Zahawi's Firm Joins One Million New NHS Recruitment Bonanza


Research conducted by Social Investigations has revealed a million pound recruitment bonanza for just three companies attached to Lords and an MP made possible thanks to their vote.

When the Health and Social Care bill was being debated in the House of Commons, Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi rose in defence of the beleaguered Andrew Lansley to say GPs were “absolutely passionate” about the reforms and that it was a “brilliant piece of legislation”.

Nadhim Zahawi sits on the board as a non-executive director of recruitment company SThree for which he receives regular monthly payments of £2,916.67 for 7 hours work.

Sthree is the parent company of international recruitment leaders Real Staffing, who work in the Healthcare & Life Sciences sectors.

His enthusiasm for the reforms was abundantly clear and his vote helped pass the bill into an Act, which created the new Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).

Now, it can revealed that Real Staffing have been working with the new CCGs through new revenue opportunities made possible by Mr Zahawi’s vote.

The recruitment company, who has previously worked in other areas of the NHS, turned their sights on CCGs once they took over commissioning responsibilities. Freedom of Information requests sent out to all CCGs, revealed that the new commissioners have spent over two million pound on services provided by Real Staffing, covering areas such as Programme projects, Business Infomatics and administration posts.

The financial benefits for recruitment are clear, costing one CCG £486,000 for 11 staff at a cost to the Bromley CCG of over £44,000 per position filled.

Personnel Profit
Companies attached to MPs and Lords have led the recruitment bonanza in the new NHS, providing personnel into key positions in the new structure created by the Health Act.

NHS regulator and competition enforcer, Monitor, has spent close to half a million on two companies attached to Lords to fill senior positions. Following a Freedom of Information request, it was discovered that one of the companies, Odgers Berndtson, filled 12 senior personnel at a cost of close to £200,000 in agency fees. The Chairman, Richard Boggis-Rolfe, has given £207,500 in donations to the Conservative party between 2006 up until the General election. Odgers employ Baroness Bottomley as Chair of the Board and CEO practice and she also holds shares in their holding company Broomco Ltd.

The question this blog keeps asking is why are MPs allowed to vote on legislation when they have a financial interest? At local government level, anyone with a financial or non-financial interest, is debarred from the vote. Given that Real Staffing have now gained revenue through the CCGs, Mr Zahawi was asked whether his vote was for the benefit of Sthree through Real Staffing or in the interest of the public and whether he thought it was acceptable that there should be a difference between the rules that apply to MPs and councillors.
He failed to address this question stating only that his appointment with SThree took place in 2008, prior to becoming an MP. He also stated that Real Staffing have been providing services to the public sector prior to his appointment onto the board and that he “never discussed any bills with any board members."
This may be the case, but why is the public placed in a position in which they are forced to take the word of an MP, when such doubt should be removed altogether. The intentional loop-hole in the rules weakens democracy and places distrust in the eyes of the public whether justified or otherwise.

In the meantime, the amount of companies that are financially connected to MPs and Lords who have gone on to gain contracts in the new NHS continues to increase and the question is, who do our parliamentarians serve?

10 comments:

  1. “never discussed any bills with any board members."

    Doesn't matter if he did or not. The fact it will at some point line his nest is all we need to know.
    MP's need to have only the job as an MP and have restrictions in what they can legally do within a period after leaving politics.
    The stench of blatant corruption is over-powering.... It's enough to shame an Italian.

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  2. They are all in it for their own personal and financial gain. Our Government is as corrupt as other foreign governments but better at hiding it." All in it together" - to benefit themselves. There needs to e an OPEN, TRANSPARENT AND HONEST investigation into it all. But we know we will not get that as too many people will be exposed.

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  3. Absolutely appalling ,, this GOVERNMENT are a disgrace ..Their worst than the italians

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  4. This is the person who promoted introduction of laws to limit the amount of children UK mothers/fathers could have. Yet he professes that he wants to do everything possible to "help" his own country where he has substantive influence. The fact that families of 4-5-6 offspring are the norm in his own country should disqualify his opinions or proposals. We all know that Cameron wants to slice up the NHS and share it amongst his "friends". I share the view that all politicians are in it for what they can get and that in itself is enough to say that MP's are corrupt. The fact that again "reform" of child poverty will be used to massage and manipulate figures is appalling.

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  5. BROKEN BRITISH POLITICS –TORY BENEFIT CHEATS
    Peter Bone is being questioned under caution over a £100,000 benefit fraud involving Mrs' Bone's mum .No wonder he can afford to be court jester in the House of Commons mentioning Mrs Bone in many of his speeches .The Tories have more front than Blackpool .
    It is alleged that taxpayers' money was used to fund her care after her assets were apparently deliberately concealed . The real figure for how much money the Bones cream off the taxpayer could actually be double that at £200,000. On top of Bone's salary as an MP, Mrs Bone was paid between £45,000 and £49,999 last year. Meaning that between them the Bones are raking in more than £100,000 from the taxpayer a year, on top of the £100,000 Mrs Bone's mum allegedly
    swindled .
    Just another Tory Thief they have all Robbed the Public Purse ,their chairman Shapps used to commit fraud on the internet regularly to earn a living .They are not fit to lick someone on Benefits boots never mind pretend to be in Government .
    http://brokenbritishpolitics.simplesite.com

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  6. thanks for the update, yet again freemasons looking after freemasons, its not about right or left wing, red or blue, its about the abuse of power, how many people remember the remembrancer who stands in the houses of parliament, reminding them of the city of london.

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  7. The corporate party knows only the colour of money.

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  8. OT.

    “David Cameron, William Astor and the Bahamas”

    http://www.andywightman.com/?p=3040

    “Tenanted land and minority interests”

    http://www.andywightman.com/?cat=8

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  9. He is a Conservative Friend of Israel too. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24822

    Note the £3000 a month from SThree the employment agency referred to and all his other shareholdings. What a very greedy individual.

    Remember Mr Zahawi. It is OUR NHS, not yours or your pals to plunder and destroy.

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