Select Committee on Public Accounts Thirty-Ninth Report


PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE
RELATING TO THE REPORT


Session 1997-98

MONDAY 26 JANUARY 1998

Members present:

Mr David Davis, in the Chair


Mr Ian DavidsonMr Christopher Leslie
Mr Geraint DaviesMr Andrew Love
Ms Maria Eagle Mr Richard Page
Ms Jane GriffithsMr Alan Williams
Mr Phil Hope


Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, was further examined.

The Committee deliberated.

Mr Frank Martin, Second Treasury Officer of Accounts, was further examined.

The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on Protecting Environmentally Sensitive Areas (HC 120) was considered.

Mr Richard Packer, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, was examined (HC 513-i).

[Adjourned till Wednesday 28 January 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 CampbellMr Christopher Leslie
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Mr Andrew Love
Mr Geraint DaviesMr Robert Maclennan
Ms Maria EagleMr Alan Williams





Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, was further examined.

The Committee deliberated.

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Draft Report (Protecting Environmentally Sensitive Areas), 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 50 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 4 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Thirty-ninth 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 20 May at half past Four o'clock.


 
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