Assembly members walking out

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    Subject: Freedom of Information request - Assembly members walking out

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Dear Mr Komulainen,

Thank you for your request for information which we received on 07 December 2011.

You asked for a list of all meetings in year 2011 where Assembly Members have walked out thus rendering the meeting inquorate.

The affected meetings were:

London Assembly (Plenary) 8 June 2011
London Assembly (Plenary) 19 October 2011
London Assembly (Plenary) 07 December 2011.

You also requested details of names of the members walking out as well as the debates,motions and votes that were therefore skipped.

The following Members walked out of those meetings:

8 June 2011: Tony Arbour, Gareth Bacon, Richard Barnes, Andrew Boff, Victoria Borwick, James Cleverly, Brian Coleman, Roger Evans, Kit Malthouse, and Richard Tracey.

Items 9, 10 and 11 were not dealt with: http://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/mgCon...

19 October 2011: James Cleverly, Richard Tracey and Tony Arbour.

Items 4-14 weren't dealt with: http://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/mgCon...

7 December 2011: Tony Arbour, Gareth Bacon, Richard Barnbrook, Andrew Boff, Victoria Borwick, James Cleverly, Brian Coleman, Roger Evans, Kit Malthouse, Steve O'Connell and Richard Tracey.
Part of Item 6 and Items 7 - 13 weren't dealt with: http://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/mgCon...

Some, if not all of the business, would have been referred to subsequent meetings.

Yours sincerely

Chaitali Hireker
Office Manager

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