PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO
THE REPORT
Session 1997-98
WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 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 |
| Ms Jane Griffiths | Mr Charles Wardle
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| Mr Phil Hope |
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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 the
Appropriation Accounts 1996-97 Volume 12, Class XII, Vote 2—Department
of Social Security (HC 251-XII) was considered.
Mr Peter Mathison, Chief Executive, and Mr David
Riggs, Finance Director, the Benefits Agency, were examined (HC
570-i)
[Adjourned till Monday 23 February at half past Four
o'clock.
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Session 1997-98
WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 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 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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Draft Report (Appropriation Account 1996-97 Class
XII, Vote 1(Administered Social Security Benefits and Other Payments),
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 71 read and agreed to.
Postponed paragraph 7 read, amended and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report,
as amended, be the Fifty-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.
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[Adjourned till Wednesday 22 July at half past Four
o'clock.
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