MPA Full Authority 31 Mar 11
Transcript of the meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority held on Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 10 am in the Chamber, City Hall, SE1. Present: Members: Kit Malthouse (Chairman), Reshard Auladin (Vice Chairman) Tony Arbour, Jennette Arnold, John Biggs, Chris Boothman, Victoria Borwick, Valerie Brasse, Cindy Butts, James Cleverly, Dee Doocey, Toby Harris, Neil Johnson, Jenny Jones, Clive Lawton, Joanne McCartney, Steve O’Connell, Caroline Pidgeon, Amanda Sater, Valerie Shawcross and Graham Speed. MPA Officers: Catherine Crawford (Chief Executive), Jane Harwood (Deputy Chief Executive) and Bob Atkins (Treasurer). MPS Officers: Tim Godwin (Acting Commissioner), John Yates (Acting Deputy Commissioner), Lynne Owens (Assistant Commissioner for Central Operations) and Anne McMeel (Director of Resources). Kit Malthouse (Chairman, MPA): Members, good morning. Thank you very much. Kirsten [Hearn] has given her apologies, along with Faith [Boardman] and the Commissioner, whom you will be pleased to know goes from strength to strength and should be back with us relatively soon. Kirsten’s absence means we do not need to go round the room. Are there any other apologies? No? OK. Thank you. Declarations of interests? Does anybody have any interests to declare other than those that are on the paper? No? Thanks very much. Minutes of the meeting of 24 February 2011. Anybody have anything on accuracy? Any matters arising? Yes, Dee [Doocey]? Dee Doocey (AM): Yes, Chair. I asked for a list of meetings between senior MPS officers and News International and, indeed, I received the list. What I would like to ask the Deputy Commissioner is why the list did not include four lunches and dinners that Andy Hayman [former Assistant Commissioner, MPS] had had with News International in 2006, which the MPS was certainly aware of because it published it in a Freedom of Information request that it had received from a member of the public two weeks previous to that.
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