Fallaize quits Scrutiny due to 'systemic weaknesses'

MATT Fallaize has resigned from the Scrutiny Committee.

He becomes the second member this term to quit a post after Mike Hadley left Commerce and Employment.

Deputy Fallaize's resignation letter to the committee's chairman, Paul Arditti, was leaked yesterday – he intended to make it public when December's billet is published on Friday.

Deputy Fallaize, pictured, gave his full backing to Mr Arditti and his plans to reform scrutiny.

'Nonetheless, there remain significant systemic weaknesses in the scrutiny function of the States of Guernsey,' he said in the letter.

'One is that the committee is massively under-resourced. Another is that the scrutiny function as conceived within our present machinery of government is materially flawed. A third is that one effect of the States' dysfunctional policy planning process – paradoxically perhaps – is to compromise the relevance and impact of the committees established to scrutinise departmental policy.'