24th February 2012, 11:22 AM
Martin Locock Wrote:At presnet there is a wide variation in practice on contractors lists: some have a local list with varying criteria, some give no guidance at all, and some point to the IfA RO list. The guidance seems reasonably worded, since it just says that tcuartors may wish to say IfA RO only, which since some already is no more than the truth. But if anyone is concerned about this clause they should respond to the consultation and say so.
As I have fully set out elsewhere in this discussion, on the issue of monitoring contractors the guidance is not reasonable, it is plainly duplicitous.
Your contribution has been consistent and I appreciate you feel a personal commitment to the IfA's ambitions, but advocacy on this particular aspect of the guidance is not helped by simply banging out the same old lines and ignoring the argument, based on policy and the benefits of open and improved business practice, against proposals that will further damage a fragile commercial sector. We would all prefer not to have to repeat ourselves.....