Trooping dutifully to the House of Commons to attend the public accounts committee investigations into formula funding, Diary was keen to hear the official views of DCLG permanent secretary, Sir Bob Kerslake.
Notwithstanding the sudden emergence and equally-mysterious disappearance of assorted groups of foreign dignitaries clutching parliamentary goodie bags at crucial junctures of proceedings, Diary was vexed by an even more basic problem.
