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  • London Development Agency Funding of Organisations

    • Reference: 2008/0006
    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    A number of times the phrase is used that you found 'no evidence'. It is difficult to ask you to prove a negative but I think it would be helpful to have assurances about the thoroughness of the review. Could you tell me about what interviews and discussions there were with staff, with representatives from the projects and so on?

  • Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    So, again, no intervention; the Board did not rewrite it, ask you to pull your punches or whatever?

  • Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [16]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    Therefore if you are looking at questions of the inner workings of organisations you might have funded in the past, you simply do not have the powers to investigate those to the extent that the allegations would suggest you might need to or might want to, or a third party might want to?

  • Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [21]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    Just for the record, what formally are those roles that you fulfil, then? You are an accountant, I believe, but also you are the Financial Officer and that is defined in statute. Is that right?

  • Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [32]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    I have a number of housekeeping questions: the first one, which I think follows very neatly from Peter Hulme Cross's intervention, is, can you confirm, Mr Travers, that you are a Statutory Officer and that you have trade and professional qualifications as well which require you to act with integrity and not to be nobbled by the Board or other officers of the LDA?

  • London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    That is fine. I am happy with that. I take your word but it does seem as though what you have done is a sort of desk-based exercise, very internally focused. Here are the people who awarded the contracts doing the investigation. There seems to be a certain amount of independence lacking, if I could put it that way.

  • London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [22]

    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    Can you give us a rough idea of the quantity of written material and email; the documents and the records that have been reviewed? Have you looked at all the LDA's paper records as well as the electronic records?

  • London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [31]

    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    Without my wanting to imply too much by this, Deloitte's role as internal auditors to date has been reporting to you?

  • London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [33]

    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    I was going to ask you what the role was of Deloitte, the internal auditors?

  • Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    Can you confirm then that the report that was issued is substantially, other than maybe a few housekeeping issues that might have emerged, the one that was presented to the Board on the Friday morning? I believe that is the case.