25. LETTER
TO
THE
COMMISSIONER
FROM
RT
HON
JACQUI
SMITH
MP, 14 JULY
2009
Thank you for your letter of 7 July enclosing a letter
from the Metropolitan Police and your table of analysis of my
overnight stays in London and Redditch.
I have today received the night by night analysis
from the Metropolitan Police that I asked for as a condition of
their providing you with summarised information. For your information,
this is in the form of a spreadsheet which simply notes whether
the night was covered (in their view) in Redditch or in London.
They have also enclosed a summary of […] for each day.
I have not seen the records that have led to these
conclusions although I do note that AC Janet Williams has stated
that these records were collected for accounting purposes. I presume
she means financial accounting rather than accounting for my whereabouts!
However I have now gone through again day by day,
my personal and Ministerial diaries to check any discrepancies
with the Metropolitan Police summary. I have recorded my view
of these discrepancies in the following table:
[…]
I still believe that my original estimates using
both ministerial and personal diaries that we went through together
are likely to be the most accurate record and are the basis on
which I would have made judgements about which was my main home.
However, I note below my understanding of what the above (if accepted)
would mean for the police summary and your summary:
[…]
I hope that this is helpful. […]
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