PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO THE REPORT
(Session 1996-97)
MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY 1997
Members present:
Mr Robert Sheldon, in the Chair
| Sir Michael Shersby | Mr Michael Stern
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| Mr Richard Tracey | Mr Alan Williams
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Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor
General, was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
Mr J Breckenridge, Assistant Treasury Officer
of Accounts, was further examined.
The Comptroller and Auditor General's report
on The Appropriation Accounts 1995-96 (Class XVII Vote 3: HM
Customs and Excise) was considered.
Mrs V P M Strachan, CB, Chairman, Mr D F O Battle,
Commissioner, Principle Establishment Officer and Director Personnel
and Finance, and Mr A C Sawyer, Commissioner and Director, Operations
(Prevention), HM Customs and Excise, were examined (HC 294-i).
[Adjourned till Wednesday next at a quarter past
Four o'clock.
(Session 1997-98)
WEDNESDAY 10 DECEMBER 1997
Members present:
Mr David Davis, in the Chair
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | Mr Charles Wardle
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| Mr Andrew Love | Mr Phil Hope
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| Ms Maria Eagle | Mr Alan Williams
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| Mr Richard Page | Mr Christopher Leslie
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| Ms Jane Griffiths | |
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Draft Report (Her Majesty's Customs and Excise:
Appropriation Account Matters 1995-96), proposed by the Chairman,
brought up and read.
Ordered, That the
draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraph 1 read and agreed to.
Paragraph 2 postponed.
Paragraphs 3 to 41 read and agreed to.
Postponed paragraph 2 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the
Report be the Sixteenth Report of the Committee to the House.
Ordered, That the
Chairman do make the Report to the House.
Ordered, That the
provisions of Standing Order No. 134 (Select Committees (Reports))
be applied to the Report.
[Adjourned till Monday next at half past Four o'clock.
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