Further correspondence from the Chairman
of the Committee to the Chairman of the MPA, 10 February 2009
I am writing to you again to express my Committee's
deep concerns about the evidence you have submitted to our inquiry
into the Policing Process of Home Office Leaks.
In oral evidence to the Committee, then immediately
after the formal session had ceased, and then in subsequent communications,
you have given no fewer than four different accounts of the communications
you had with Leader of the Opposition David Cameron regarding
the arrest of Damian Green MP.
We appreciated you coming before the Committee
on Tuesday 3 February 2009 but the disparities between the evidence
you gave us and your subsequent communications have led my Committee
to express concerns about your apparent level of preparation to
give formal evidence to a select committee of the House of Commons.
We are also concerned about the level of respect and courtesy
you have shown the Committee in providing evidence and especially
in your subsequent communications.
The Committee are unanimously resolved in their
decision to request that you now provide a prompt written clarification
of the actual times of the calls made to David Cameron on the
day of Damian Green's arrest, with some indication of the basis
on which you can now be confident of your evidence.
The Committee will again as a whole consider
your response and we reserve the right to call you back as a witness
to clarify your position further if we do not find it satisfactory.
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