24. LETTER
TO
RT
HON
JACQUI
SMITH
MP FROM
THE
COMMISSIONER,
7 JULY
2009
I have now heard back from the Metropolitan Police
with the outcome of their analysis of your overnight stays in
your London and Redditch residences from 28 June 2007 to 31 March
2009.
As you know, I wrote to them with this request on
18 June, following your letter of 15 June. The Metropolitan Police
responded in their letter of 3 July. I enclose copies of both
letters. I enclose also a summary of the information we have collected
about your overnight stays, reflecting the estimates we made from
your diaries, and the information provided by the police, distributing
one of the uncertain nights to London and the other to the constituency.
As you will see, there is a significant difference
in the balance of your overnight stays between your diary estimates
and the police information, based on an analysis of their records
as described in their letter to me of 3 July.
The Metropolitan Police have provided to you, but
not to me, a night-by-night analysis on which these total figures
are based. You will, therefore, be able to see how far differences
between the police record and the diary estimates relate to nights
where we recognised that the diary evidence was not conclusive
and that a judgement needed to be made.
I would welcome your views on whether you would accept
the police analysis. While the precise numbers are unlikely to
be conclusive, the wider gap in the balance between your stays
in London and in your constituency over the last two years may
have some significance and may be something which we might explore
in the interview which I propose, once this matter is out of the
way, we now hold before I conclude this inquiry.
Could you, therefore, let me know whether you accept
the police analysis, or would wish to challenge it and, if so,
on what basis? A response in the next two weeks would be most
welcome. If you would like a word about this, do please get in
touch.
| Analysis of where Rt Hon Jacqui Smith MP spent her nights
|
| TOTAL LONDON
| TOTAL REDDITCH
| TOTAL ELSEWHERE
| TOTAL FOR YEAR
| DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LONDON AND REDDITCH NIGHTS
|
2005-06
Number of nights
|
139 |
128
|
58 |
325
|
11 |
2006-07
Number of nights
|
151 |
131
|
83 |
365
|
20 |
2007-08
Number of nights (up to and including 27 June)
Number of nights (from 28 June)
Police analysis (from 28 June)
|
43
114
102
|
29
116
128
|
16
48
|
88
278
|
14
-2
-26
|
2008-09
Number of nights
Police analysis
|
145
137
|
154
174
|
66 |
365
|
-9
-37
|
Note: Agreed figures for 2007-08 have been broken down
into those relating to the period up to and including 27 June,
and those for the period beginning 28 June. This is to aid comparison
with the police figures, which relate only to the latter period.
7 July 2009
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