Select Committee on Public Accounts Forty-Eighth Report


PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO THE REPORT

Session 1997-98

WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY 1998

Members present:

Mr David Davis, in the Chair


Mr Alan CampbellMr Christopher Leslie
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Mr Andrew Love
Mr Geraint DaviesMr Richard Page
Ms Maria EagleMr Charles Wardle
Ms Jane GriffithsMr Alan Williams
Mr Phil Hope


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

Mr K Hawkswell, Assistant Director, National Audit Office, was examined.

The Committee deliberated.

Mr Jamie Mortimer, Treasury Officer of Accounts, was further examined.

The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the Ministry of Defence: The Sale of the Married Quarters Estate (HC 239) was considered.

Sir Richard Mottram, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, the Ministry of Defence, was examined (HC 518-i)

[Adjourned till Monday 2 February at half past Four o'clock.

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Session 1997-98

MONDAY 15 JUNE 1998

Members present:

Mr David Davis, in the Chair


Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Mr Christopher Leslie
Ms Jane GriffithsMr Andrew Love
Mr Phil HopeMr Alan Williams


Mr Bob Le Marechal, CB, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General, was further examined.

The Committee deliberated.

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

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Draft Report (Ministry of Defence: The Sale of the Married Quarters Estate), 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 58 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 4 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Forty-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 17 June at half past Four o'clock.


 
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