• 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?

• 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?

• 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?

• 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'?

• 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?

• 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?

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

But none of the organisations have received grants?

• 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?

• 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

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?