Search questions

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I am sure you are right, but you miss the point; to get one of your policy directors to search for the lawyer who investigates another one of your policy directors, whatever their personal merits or views, just looks as if it is fixed. Why not get the Chief Executive who everybody knows has, by his role, to be separate to do it? What is the problem with that? Why do you find that so difficult?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Just one final thing. You put great faith in the independence of this inquiry. Why have you asked one of your policy directors, Ms Parchment, to search for the appropriate lawyer? Why not ask the Chief Executive?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

I assume that suspension actually ought to stem from some evidence of misconduct and I would like to know what the evidence of misconduct is? If so, it would be very helpful to have it on the record. I was grateful to hear your support for post office closures. A lot of us would have been much more impressed if you had made the same support in relation to the previous round of post office closures which closed a number of Crown Post Offices, and the round before that about two years ago; both of which you were remarkably silent...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

What about Lee Jasper's misconduct or not?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

You suspend someone who has not misconducted himself. Amazing.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Then why suspend him?

• Reference: 2008/0297
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Tarique Gauffur has stated at the recent EDCST Committee meeting, that if in the event of foreign police, armed or otherwise being deployed on British Soil during the 2012 Games, he would not have guaranteed Command and Control over such officers without legislation. Can you ensure that the government introduce such legislation to insure against such a situation?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Understood. Then, quite separately, as you also point out in your report, there is a separate police investigation into the Green Badge Taxi School which you are cooperating with?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Yes, thank you very much, so that is an internal review. Your conclusions in the report, which I have read and which were submitted to the LDA Board, really put it in these terms, do they not, as Mike Tuffrey has said; in a nutshell, of the six you concentrated on, four require further work, three of those specifically involve the police and we do not know whether Brixton Base will involve the police or not because it is too early to say yet; you need to do further work. Is that a fair conclusion?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

But none of the organisations have received grants?