23. LETTER
TO
THE
COMMISSIONER
FROM
ASSISTANT
COMMISSIONER
JANET
WILLIAMS,
QPM, 3 JULY
2009
Thank you for your letter dated 18th June 2009. I
can confirm that this letter represents the position of both the
Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and West Mercia Constabulary
(WMC).
I have also received a letter dated 15 June 2009
from Jacqui Smith MP where she has provided her written consent
to the provision of this data to you, albeit this consent being
conditional on the 'night by night analysis' that forms the basis
of the summary being supplied to her.
Although the primary reason for the data being collected
is for accounting purposes, I am able, on the basis of this consent,
to supply you with the data that you have requested.
In providing the answers to your request contained
within your letter dated 22 April, my officers and West Mercia
officers have collated data [for] the Member's London and Redditch
residences. This data has then been checked for consistency with
[another data source]. The data has been collated by the respective
departments and then checked by independent officers.
…
[The residence data] is consistent with the [other
source] on all but two occasions. That is to say that the data
consistently supports the breakdown of the number of nights, but
that on two occasions only, the data is unclear.
| DATES
| NIGHTS GUARDED AT LONDON
| NIGHTS GUARDED AT REDDITCH
|
| 28 June 2007 to 31 March 2008
| 101 (or 102) | 128
|
| 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009
| 137 | 173 (or 174)
|
| Total (28 June 2007 to 31 March 2009)
| 238 (or 239) | 301 (or 302)
|
[Those occasions were] 13 February 2008 [and] 7 January
2009.
…
3 July 2009
| 
