Written question asked by Mark Francois (Conservative) on Thursday, 18 January 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 22 January 2007. It was answered by Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour) on Friday, 18 May 2007 on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Bridges Community Ventures

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on what dates officials in his Department have met the fund manager of Bridges Community Ventures (BCV) since May 2002; and which representatives of BCV attended each meeting.

Answer: Since May 2002, DTI officials have attended two Partnership meetings per annum at which the Bridges CDVF executive team were present together with the limited partners in the fund. These meetings were open to other investors and BCV board members. DTI does not keep a record of third party attendees.Additional meetings have been held as set out in the following list. Meetings were usually attended by Philip Newborough and Michele Giddens or, on occasion, by one or the other.Partnership meetings"10 December 2002""10 June 2003""10 December 2003""7 July 2004""10 December 2004""10 June 2005""8 December 2005""8 June 2006""7 December 2006"Ad hoc meetings"24 April 2002""30 July 2002""4 November 2003""1 September 2004""5 October 2004""18 October 2006""21 November 2006"

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