Letter to the Chair of the Committee from
Ms Jacqy Sharpe, Clerk of Committees
I have read the evidence given by the Clerk
of the House on Wednesday 24 February. There appears to be some
confusion between the time at which the search of a Member's office
was made public and the time at which Mr Green's arrest was announced,
and I hope your Committee might therefore find it helpful to know
that I saw television coverage of a Member's office being searched
sometime after 2.15 pm on the afternoon of Thursday 27 November
2008. As soon as I saw the coverage I went to the Clerk's office
to check that he was aware that a search was taking place. I went
specifically for this purpose and had no other reason to call
on the Clerk. I was informed by the Clerk's secretary that he
had seen the coverage; when I talked to the Clerk it was clear
that he had had by then spoken to the Serjeant.
Jacqy Sharpe
1 March 2010
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