Select Committee on Public Accounts Fortieth Report


PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE
RELATING TO THE REPORT


Session 1997-98

MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY 1998

Members present:

Mr David Davis, in the Chair
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
Ms Maria Eagle
Mr Christopher Leslie
Mr Andrew Love
Mr Richard Page

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

Mrs Gillian Body, Director, National Audit Office, was examined.

The Committee deliberated.

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

The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on The Management of Building Projects at English Higher Education Institutions (HC 452) was considered.

Professor Brian Fender, Chief Executive, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, was examined (HC 558-i).

[Adjourned till Wednesday 18 February 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 Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
Mr Geraint Davies
Ms Maria Eagle
Mr Christopher Leslie
Mr Andrew Love
Mr Robert Maclennan
Mr Alan Williams

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

The Committee deliberated.

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Draft Report (The Management of Building Projects at English Higher Education Institutions), 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 48 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 4 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Fortieth 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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