§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times in each month of the current year he has met personally the heads of the agencies which report to him to discuss the work of those agencies. [39859]
§ Mr. HowardI met the former Director General of the Prison Service 11 times in January, four times in both February and October, 10 times in March, once each in April, August and September, three times in both May and July and five times in June, an average of one meeting a week over the 10-month period. I met the chief 397W executive of the Passport Agency once in April. I had no meetings with the chief executives of the Forensic Science Service and the Fire Service College—the other Home Office agencies—during that period. I receive quarterly reports from the chief executives on the performance of their agencies.