Information gathered for the independent report into problems at the Department of Education was dropped after a meeting between the inquiry team and the Chief Minister.

In the House of Keys this week, Howard Quayle said that some evidence was not included in final version.

But he denied it was significant.

Under pressure from backbenchers, he confirmed he would be prepared to circulate a copy of the original presentation to him from the Beamans team, as long as the authors of the report agreed.

The Beamans Report, commissioned by Mr Quayle, highlighted a ’fractured’ relationship between the department and its workforce.

Dr Allinson has already pledged a culture change at the department and proposed reforms are being looked at.

Following the publication of the report, Professor Ronald Barr resigned as department chief executive.

But Julie Edge (Onchan) wanted to know if all MHKs had seen the original version of the report.

’I did ask for a meeting with the Chief Minister, which we still have not with regards to this, but is the Chief Minister not aware that there was a draft copy of this report circulated broader than perhaps he realises and perhaps some of the information that he has provided is not accurate?’ she asked.

Mr Quayle said prior to publication of the report, amendments were made to ’correct misspelt names, job titles, an omission in the list of consultees and the approval procedures for a process’.

He confirmed he, chief secretary Will Greenhow and Education Minister Dr Allinson had an earlier meeting with the Beamans team, where the findings were presented, but all parties were keen the report did not identify individuals.

’In their presentation they commented on a particular Tynwald debate and agreed that this information had no value and would therefore be removed,’ he said.

’The reference did not form part of the draft report represented to CoMin as it might have been seen to distract from the valuable evidence given by teachers and their representatives.

’It was a presentation given just to myself, the Minister for Education, Sport and Culture and the chief secretary.’

The completed version went to the Council of Ministers, who sent it to the Department of Education and, although there were challenges to the report from the department’s senior leadership team, these were rejected by Beamans due to a lack of supporting evidence.

’I do not know if any got to see the initial presentation, but the actual report itself, bar the amendments that I have already said, that was it,’ Mr Quayle added.

Ms Edge asked whether the department changed the draft ’quite significantly’ before it was presented.

Mr Quayle insisted Beamans did not make any changes based on challenges from the Department of Education.

Bill Shimmins (Middle), a member of the House of Keys select committee looking at the Education Bill, intervened.

He said: ’There is a bit of a distraction about the different drafts of the report. The select committee met with Beamans on Friday and they indicated, the officers of the report, they were entirely comfortable with providing the committee with a copy of the original report prior to the changes which were requested.

’Will the Chief Minister confirm he is also comfortable just to issue this report, just to take this off the table?’

Mr Quayle said: ’If it is in my gift, I am more than happy to share the initial presentation from Beamans. I think this is a mountain out of a molehill. If they are more than happy to share it, I am more than happy to share it.’

When he was before the social affairs policy review committee last week, Dr Allinson was also asked what changes were made to the report.

He told the committee that when he gave a briefing to the senior leadership team (SLT) in his department, after the Council of Ministers had approved the final draft of the report, ’there were no significant changes made to the report by the SLT’.

He added: ’Any suggested changes were fed in through the chief secretary’s office to Beamans and these were in terms of accuracy of the report.

’But there were no significant changes made to any of the recommendations in that report.’