COUNCILLOR BLACKMAN'S COMPUTER

EDM number 1414 in 1994-95, proposed by Ken Livingstone on 14/07/1995.

That this House notes that the Conservative Leader of Brent Council recently requested a new computer for his office and, when this was provided, his old computer was reallocated to the Leader of the Labour Group on Brent Council who discovered that Councillor Blackman had omitted to download any of the files held on this computer; further notes that an examination of his files has so far revealed that in letters to Gavin Barwell at Conservative Central Office, David Ruffley, Special Advisor at the Treasury, George Bridges, of the Political Office at 10 Downing Street, Keith Adams and James Grey, Special Advisers at the Department of the Environment, Damien Green, Policy Unit, 10 Downing Street, the Minister for Local Government, and the Secretary of State for the Environment, he thanks them for rigging the local government grant system to assist his party to hold power in the 1994 borough elections and requests them to do the same for the 1995 settlement to ensure that they do not 'lose control of the Borough should a by-election arise'; and calls on all the individuals concerned to deposit in the Library their replies to Councillor Blackman's letters, and in the relevant cases, the notes they made following their lunch engagements with Councillor Blackman and their visits to the borough.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.