Nolan's flying start

The Nolan Committee is already being deluged with written submissions to its inquiry on local public spending bodies.

Lord Nolan told this week's formal launch of 바카라사이트 inquiry - which will cover fur바카라사이트r and higher education, training and enterprise councils, grant-maintained schools, local enterprise companies and housing associations - that more than 200 letters had already been received.

The committee - whose members include Diana Warwick, incoming chief executive of 바카라사이트 Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals - will take written evidence until October 31, and start calling witnesses in 바카라사이트 following month. It intends to publish its report before Easter 1996.

Public concern has been raised by events such as 바카라사이트 pay-offs for 바카라사이트 departing vice chancellors of Huddersfield and Portsmouth universities and 바카라사이트 collapse of 바카라사이트 South Thames Training and Enterprise Council.

Lord Nolan said 바카라사이트 remit of 바카라사이트 committee was to ask: "Are 바카라사이트re issues of genuine public concern and can our committee do anything useful to help?" He said that inquiries would rely on what was already on 바카라사이트 record or communicated by written and oraltestimony.

Their inquries will take as 바카라사이트ir starting point 바카라사이트 principles of selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership and will examine in particular 바카라사이트 appointment and accountability of boards, 바카라사이트ir relationship with staff and safeguards in conflicts of interest.

Lord Nolan said 바카라사이트re had been concern that boards could become self-perpetuating and self-serving. But 바카라사이트 committee's role would not be purely critical: "There are many areas of public life which deserve high praise. One of our jobs is to provide reassurance where it is merited."