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Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [23]

  • Question by: Bob Blackman
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Have you referred it then fully to the District Auditor and said, 'We think there is further work that needs to be done'?

Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [22]

  • Question by: Tony Arbour
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
When you say that you are making all of the files available, will you understand our scepticism when earlier this year the Assembly's Economic Development, Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee asked lots of questions about the Bernie Grant Centre and we were originally told that there were only a few sheets of information available but then, when we asked for the matter to be investigated more closely, 40 cartons of papers were made available? It is very difficult for us on that basis to know what precisely is going to be the full information that you hold.

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) [20]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
First of all a specific point: there are standard phrases which occur in a number of paragraphs of the review, one that the review has identified weaknesses, in effect, in procedures which are now being addressed and, second, the point is made, I think, on three or four occasions about the way in which the Mayoral advisory role is conducted in respect of programme delivery should be clarified. What specific steps are you taking to carry forward those conclusions?

Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [19]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
So, two thirds of the six you concentrated on require further work. You make the point in your report, 'Further work is required in respect of four organisations including referral to police and no conclusions are reached in respect of those matters' for the reasons you have sensibly set out?

Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [18]

  • Question by: Tony Arbour
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Is this information going to be made available to us, that information which you have just said, 'You can see'?

Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [17]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Mr Travers, you have already made it clear, and I think it follows, that you did not speak to people who are not employees of the LDA. Does that mean you did not speak to Mr Jasper?

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) [15]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
But none of the organisations have received grants?

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?
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