• 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.

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

Or any of the people who are involved in the running of the organisations, obviously?

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

Has he given you a timescale for what he is going to do or how he is going to do anything?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Not the rest of the 12 that were looked at?

• 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?

• 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: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Can you understand, Manny, that Londoners will be rather foxed by a response of that kind; that you did not go to the source of the information which has been published and ask directly, and that you have merely dealt with it really at this remote distance?

• 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'?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Yes. I would like to know exactly how you carried out your investigation; for example, did you interview the whistleblower, Brenda Stern, as to the allegations which she made and which were repeated in the Evening Standard?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Just to clear up the point about when the report was released I think it went to the Board at 9 am or so and the press release came out 3 pm or 4 pm. I could not get the report itself off the LDA website until close to 7 pm on a Friday evening.