Graphic shamelessly stolen from Guido.Of interest to Mr Guido Fawkes of this parish, from today's Hansard (not yet published...)
Mr Keith Simpson (Con, Mid Norfolk): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which charities have held meetings at 11 Downing Street since December 2005.
Mr Keith Simpson (Con, Mid Norfolk): On how many occasions since December 2005 the Smith Institute has held meetings at 11 Downing Street and who attended each.
John Healey (Financial Secretary to the Treasury): I will let the Honourable Member have a reply in due course.
It is hardly rocket science to answer two simple questions like that, is it? Do I detect the sound of shredded attendance lists...? Perhaps we'll get this answer from John Healy...
John Healey (Financial Secretary to the Treasury): The answers could only be obtained by reforming the shredded lists at disproportional cost...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/01/08/do0802.xml
ReplyDeleteIs relevant , no doubt you read this. Good stuff Iain
Aren't public records supposed to be kept 5 or 6 years or something like that?
ReplyDeleteNo No Iain - the answer is not available in the format requested. (The format being a simple answer to a simple question).
ReplyDeleteEasy Iain, I may start writing about West Ham...
ReplyDeleteHasn't Gordon promised a humbler, more 'open' style of government or some such toss? This does kind of give the lie, rather emphatically, to that improbable vision from the Fat Controller.
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