MR DAVID NICHOLSON, MR HUGH TAYLOR AND MR RICHARD DOUGLAS

23 NOVEMBER 2006

  Q140  Chairman: I do not know how happy this will be. I was going to ask our three witnesses are any of you back with us next Wednesday?

  Mr Taylor: Some of us anyway.

  Q141  Chairman: I remind the Committee that next Wednesday we have the Secretary of State plus two of our witnesses who were with us earlier this week.

  Mr Nicholson: I will try and do more this time.

  Q142  Chairman: We look forward to that. Could, I thank you very much indeed for this morning session. Could I also say, notwithstanding the Kidderminster statistic, that this is an enormously useful exercise, hopefully for all of us, in terms of putting this together. I know it is a lot of work for the Department. There is probably only one area where we could perhaps improve it, and that is if you could index it.

  Mr Taylor: I think we might have found that helpful as well.

  Chairman: This will not go away. It was an enormously useful exercise, hopefully for all of us. Thank you very much for your attendance and we will see some of you next week.