City of London to be held to account "We believe it is important... to ensure that criticisms of complexity, opaqueness and lack of transparency cannot be levelled against SSE," it went on to say. Why then did the company break with convention by slipping out its remuneration report yesterday - a full month before its annual report is published. "Er, we've no idea why we did it," the company said. ONS late off the mark Good news from the Office for Notional Statistics. The body that insists we are in recession, while every other economist thinks we're not, released employment numbers yesterday. They're good - the number of unemployed dropped 45,000 in the first quarter. Not so good was the amount of time it took to release the numbers. The ONS failed to upload the numbers to its website when the press release was first released - a serious no no in the world of national economic figures. Unemployment number to be tweaked? Jobless count down by 44,999 perhaps? Washing your hands of the problem Worrying news from energy consultancy Utilitywise. The company, in the process of listing on Aim, has uncovered a dirty secret. Through its work managing energy usage it found hand dryers at one of its client's ladies toilets were used twice as much as the ones in the gents - despite the fact 90pc of employees are male. Utilitywise wouldn't tell me who the company was. They did confirm they shook hands on the deal though.