Bananaskinitis contagion class A

[Kieran Barry]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Donald Ramsbottom wrote:

> Still we await some specific answers to the many questions raised. I suspect
> it will take sometime to get those answers so could Simon perhaps give us a
> time scale? Also most of the points raised are valid. Just for the record,
> please do not give us pat, spin answers, the questioners in this forum are
> not impressed by it and have a very deep understanding of the the issues and
> how things actually work (and in some instances were instrumental in
> creating it).

Since we assume that the minister is reading the list in digest form, 
might it be useful to create our own digest? I would put more faith in 
this than one prepared by civil servants, if only because they have not 
shown much insight into the issues. 

Such a list might be prioritised, so that relatively unimportant issues 
(such as my question regarding revocation and disclosure might be viewed).

This would avoid the problem of the home office "cherry-picking" the 
issues it wishes to address.

Regards

Kieran

BTW Is the select committee on at 10.30 tomorrow?