PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE
RELATING TO THE REPORT
Session 1997-98
MONDAY 15 DECEMBER 1997
Members present:
Mr David Davis, in the Chair
| Mr Ian Davidson | Mr Andrew Love
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| Mr Geraint Davis | 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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Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General,
was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
Resolved, That notwithstanding
his declared involvement, as a Minister in the former Administration,
in matters to be considered at this day's meeting, the Chairman
remain in the Chair of the Committee. - (Mr Alan Williams).
Mr Jamie Mortimer, Treasury Officer of Accounts,
was further examined.
Mr John Higgins, Assistant Auditor General, the National
Audit Office, was examined.
The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on Foreign
and Commonwealth Office: Contingent Liabilities in the Dependent
Territories (HC 13) was considered.
Sir John Kerr, KCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary of
State and Head of the Diplomatic Service, Mr Peter Westmacott,
LVO, Director Americas, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Mr
John Kerby, Director, Eastern Europe and Western Hemisphere, the
Department for International Development; and Mr Lee Beaumont,
Head of Airport Security, Transport Security Branch, the Department
of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, were examined (HC
435-i).
Motion made and Question put, That Strangers do now
withdraw. - (The Chairman).
John Kerr, KCMG, and Mr Peter Westmacott, LVO, the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Mr John Kerby, Department for
International Development; and Mr Lee Beaumont, the Department
of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, were further examined
(HC 435-i).
The Committee further deliberated.
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[Adjourned till Wednesday 17 December at half past
Four o'clock.
Session 1997-98
MONDAY 11 MAY 1998
Members present:
Mr David Davis, in the Chair
| Mr Ian Davidson | Mr Christopher Leslie
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| Mr Geraint Davies | Mr Andrew Love
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| 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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Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General,
was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
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Another draft Report (The Foreign and Commonwealth
Office: Contingent Liabilities in the Dependent Territories),
proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.
Ordered, That the draft
Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 6 read and agreed to.
Paragraph 7 postponed.
Paragraphs 8 to 80 read and agreed to.
Postponed paragraph 7 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report
be the Thirty-seventh 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.
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[Adjourned till Wednesday 13 May at half past Four
o'clock.
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