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Greater London Authority Bill

This is beginning to sound like the mess that was made of medical appointments: no one is allowed to know everything about the candidates or why they have been selected. I presume that, under the provision, the Mayor goes through some kind of selection process for which he must presumably have an application form or a CV. Hopefully, a number of candidates will apply. If the candidates know that if they are successful, that application form will be given to the Assembly, as it ought to be, surely that would be sufficient. In due time, if the candidate was successful, some of that information should be available to the Assembly. To ask an adjudicating body not to have that information before it starts and to rely on having to ask the candidate for it seems to me to be making the way to appoint people by ways as bizarre as the medical route.