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London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [21]

  • 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?

London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [20]

  • 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?

London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [19]

  • 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'?

London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [18]

  • 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?

London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [17]

  • 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.

London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [16]

  • Question by: Bob Blackman
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
How are you going to conduct this sampling process?

London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [15]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
That is right. Mr Lewis, who drew up and authorised the issue of the press release?

London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [14]

  • Question by: Sally Hamwee
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Further discussions on a broader basis will take place with a more limited number of organisations, is that correct?

London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [13]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
You then you go on to say, in fairness to you, 'Subject to that further work' ' subject to that ' 'the review to date has not revealed evidence of fraud' etc. That is all subject to that further work being required, as you fairly stated in your report to the Board?

London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [12]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Mr Lewis, I take it you had read the report?
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