Edinburgh Tram Inquiry: Search the Evidence

…d morning. Sorry I'm a few minutes late. Mr Lake. MR LAKE: My Lord, the first witness today is former Councillor Gordon MacKenzie. MR GORDON MACKENZIE (affirmed) CHAIR OF THE INQUIRY: You are going to be asked questions in the first instance at least by Mr Lake, Counsel to the Inquiry. If you just listen to the question and answer it as c…

Edinburgh Tram Inquiry Office Use Only Witness Name: Gordon Mackenzie Dated: The Edinburgh Tram Inquiry Witness Statement of Gordon Ferguson Mackenzie Statement taken by Duncan Begg. My full name is Gordon Ferguson Mackenzie. I am aged 53, my date of birth being - · My contact details are known to the Inquiry. My current occupation is as…

…r others. Page 126 of 182 TRI00000106 C 0126 At page 14 of the PD report for late June there is a note that Cllr Gordon Mackenzie had called for the termination of BB's contract. I) Is this the same Gordon Mackenzie as sat on the TPB? Had he been calling for this at TPB meetings? Did this public statement cause problems? Was it discussed…

C. You will see that on the screen to your right. You should have a paper copy in front of you. A. Yes, I do. Thank you. Q. You will recognise that as the statement you gave for the purposes of this Inquiry? A. That's correct. Q. Are you happy that that be -- that you adopt that as the evidence that you give to this Inquiry? A. Yes, I am.…

…d who had confirmed to the Transport Convenor that TIE’s summary of the DRPs provided by Steven Bell 670 was 664 Gordon Mackenzie transcript 76.16‐77.3 665 Gordon Mackenzie transcript 84.14‐84.23 666 CEC00013525, Nick Smith transcript 105.24‐106.7 (Thursday 14 September) 667 CEC00006489, CEC00006490, Nick Smith transcript 107.22‐108.1 (Th…

owever, they had other means by which they could get information, and I am not clear why they allowed themselves to be frustrated by TIE in getting that information. Page 163 of 163 TRI00000086_C_0163 499. It was the legal situation that really started to concern me about the performance of TIE. I have mentioned before there was a lot of …

…rely inappropriate to do so." If you scroll down the page to see the other emails, we see the one before this is Gordon Mackenzie sending an email to you on 17 June 2010, same subject matter, the text "comments please"; and down one again, please, we see an email from Steven Bell of tie dated 7 June 2010 to Gordon Mackenzie. Same subject…

TEL Board meeting that took place on 22 September 2010. You are one of the people that attended that. A. Yes. Q. Could you look at the second page, please. If we look after the bullet points right at the foot of the page, you were saying that Mr Mackay made his own position clear that he was uncomfortable about the developments over the l…

…page, please, on the second half of the page, we can see an email from yourself dated 17 June 2010 to Councillor Gordon Mackenzie on the same subject matter. You state: "Councillor Mackenzie, I have reviewed the short summary and, with regard to the actual adjudication decisions, which I have reviewed in detail (ie the ones which had majo…

comment at various points about false logic within the programme, et cetera, et cetera. And the amount of resource. So it may have been possible, but I suppose scepticism was growing over time. Q. Going to a different matter now, quite different, we've finished with that statement for the time being, I think it's correct that you sat on t…

…aware that page 14 of the PD Report for 30 June 2010 TPB (document reference CEC00223543) states that Counsellor Gordon Mackenzie had called for the termination of BB's contract. This is the same Gordon Mackenzie who sat on the TPB and I believe he did attend future TPB meetings. I do not recall anything further on the statement 265. I am…

in my mind, and is consistent with what is reported, but that was the first time that I had heard of that figure. Figures were not being routinely discussed in the TPB. Page14101141 TRI00000086_C_0141 439. I was provided with papers in advance of the meeting of the TPB on 17 November 2010 [CEC00014175]. I think many of us were very shocke…

…port Scotland. Transport Scotland got a copy of the Board papers in any event. It was also noted that Councillor Gordon Mackenzie had made a public statement calling for the termination of BB's contract [CEC00223543, page 15]. The statement probably upset a few people and ruffled a few feathers. Gordon Mackenzie sat on the TPB. It was not…

2007 to June 2009, I was the Convenor of Finance. From June 2009 to May 2012, I was Convenor of Transport. As a result of holding the Convenor of Finance role, I was Page 1 of 1 TRI00000086 _ C_ 0001 nominated to be a Director of Transport Edinburgh Limited (TEL). I continued as a Director of TEL when I became Convenor of Transport in Jul…

…the Council itself. Page 53 of 86 TRI00000092 C 0053 120. Richard Walker of BBS sent a letter to Tom Aitchison, Gordon Mackenzie, Donald McGougan and David Anderson dated 8 March 2010 [CEC00548823]. I did not see this letter. It was not addressed to me and it was to be treated as 'private and confidential: Gordon Mackenzie had taken over…