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Lord Ashcroft

Put that Lord Mandelson had said that the records concerning Lord Ashcroft’s appointment must be in the Cabinet Office and what was being done to make the records public, the PMS said he was not aware of any pressure to make papers public.

Lord Mandelson had made a political comment earlier today and the PMS would not make a comment on that. The PMS said that there were FOI requests that had been tabled and they would be dealt with in the usual way.

Asked who appointed the people who sat on the Political Appointments Committee and was it the Prime Minister, the PMS said that that committee had been superseded and he would need to check.

Put that the Appointments Commission was a creature of the Prime Minister, the PMS said he wouldn’t characterise it as that. Asked if the Prime Minister made the appointments, the PMS said he would need to check on whether they were direct Prime Ministerial appointments. The new Appointments Committee was established to give it a degree of independence that it did not have previously.

Asked why the Prime Minister recommended Lord Paul to the Privy Council, the PMS replied that the process of recommending someone to the Privy Council was in the gift of the Prime Minister. Lord Paul was the first member of an ethnic minority to become a Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords.

Put that Keith Vaz had to wait seven years after he became Britain’s first Asian Minister, the PMS said that there was no particular timetable around the Privy Council.

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