18. Letter to the Commissioner from
Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, 3 December 2008
Thank you for your further letter of 26 November
2008.
Your understanding of the time when I was first made
aware of this donation of £3000 by Canatxx is correct—i.e.
I became aware of it at or near the time it was made in April
2004.
For the reasons explained in my earlier letters the
donation, as it were, slipped off my radar very quickly after
that, until I received the Parliamentary Question from Mr Wallace
in April 2006, when I put the fact of the donation in the parliamentary
record, albeit not on the Register. It reappeared on my radar
again in September 2006—and I have set out those circumstances
in a letter to you. But I am afraid the matter then went out of
my mind altogether until the recent complaint from Mr Wallace.
Though I have no specific recollections of this now, I am sure
I did receive the full register entry on 30 January 2007 to which
you make reference. I assume that I gave it a quick check to ensure
that it did include the items I had declared but since the matter
of the Canatxx donation had slipped out of my mind, it did not
jog my memory at that stage.
I hope this is helpful.
3 December 2008
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