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He also denied that either he or his family firm were the instigator of, or prime mover behind, The Consulting Association, nor that his company actually ran any blacklist. He sought to make clear that if there were names on the list that should not have been on the list, it was nothing to do with him or his company. However, he admitted that McAlpine was a major user of the service, routinely faxing over lists of names to what was effectively a centralised industry vetting service for HR managers.

In Sir Robert McAlpine was the biggest user of the service. Cullum McAlpine, a director of the company since , said that this was because it had a lot of major projects starting that year, and many of them were sensitive — either financially, politically or both. He said that the company had become particularly careful about who it employed on sites having had one raided by the Border Agency in and had a lot of illegal immigrants removed.

MPs expressed their incredulity at this suggestion that referring to a list of supposed political subversives could be useful in checking migrant status. He said that no workers on the Olympic project were flagged up by The Consulting Association. The prime mover behind the setting up of The Consulting Association was Percy Trentham, he said, who asked McAlpine to offer a main board director to help set it up since they wanted a major civil engineering contractor to front it.

He was never in charge of operations at The Consulting Association; he just chaired the finance committee to help ensure its finances were in order, he said.

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Mr Kerr gave evidence before the committee in November and died a few weeks later of natural causes. A transcript of his cross-examination,m in which he comes clean about his activities, can be read in full on the committee's website, click for link here. With his company lawyer beside him, Mr McAlpine yesterday declined to answer any answers that could incriminate him in pending legal action.

Asked if any lessons have been learned, Mr McAlpine said that it would have been better if the service had been out in the open rather than covert. The Consulting Association's activities were not illegal at the outset and only became so after the passge of subsequent legislation. This is a further reason why we need a Government inquiry into blacklisting so that the full truth can come out.

Workers were primarily on the blacklist because of their trade union membership, their political beliefs or because they had raised health and safety issues.