PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO
THE REPORT
Session 1997-98
WEDNESDAY 10 DECEMBER 1997
Members present:
Mr David Davis, in the Chair
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
| Mr Andrew Love |
| Ms Maria Eagle | Mr Richard Page
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| Ms Jane Griffiths | Mr Charles Wardle
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| Mr Phil Hope | Mr Alan Williams
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| Mr Christopher Leslie |
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Mr John Dowdall, Comptroller and Auditor General
for Northern Ireland, was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
Mr Stephen Quinn, Treasury Officer of Accounts, Department
of Finance and Personnel (Northern Ireland) was further examined.
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The Committee further deliberated.
The Comptroller and Auditor General's report of The
Industrial Research and Technology Unit (Northern Ireland) (HC
9) was considered.
Mr G Loughran, Permanent Secretary, the Department
of Economic Development (Northern Ireland); and Mr G McConnell,
Chief Executive, The Industrial Research and Technology Unit,
Northern Ireland, were examined (HC 429-i).
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[Adjourned till Monday 15 December at half past Four
o'clock.
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Session 1997-98
MONDAY 18 MAY 1998
Members present:
Mr David Davis, in the Chair
| Mr Alan Campbell | Mr Christopher Leslie
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| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
| Mr Andrew Love |
| Mr Geraint Davies | Mr Robert Maclennan
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| Ms Maria Eagle | Mr Alan Williams
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Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General,
was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
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Draft Report (Northern Ireland: The Industrial Research
and Technology Unit), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and
read.
Ordered, That the draft
Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 3 read and agreed to.
Paragraph 4 postponed.
Paragraphs 5 to 42 read and agreed to.
Postponed paragraph 4 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report
be the Thirty-eighth 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 Wednesday 20 May at half past Four
o'clock.
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