Select Committee on Public Accounts Forty-Ninth Report


PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO THE REPORT

Session 1997-98

MONDAY 2 MARCH 1998

Members present:

Mr David Davis, in the Chair


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


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

The Committee deliberated.

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

The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on The Sale of the Stationery Office (HC 522) was considered.

Mr Robin Mountfield, Permanent Secretary, and Mr Michael Herron, Deputy Director and Head of the Better Regulation Unit, The Office of Public Service of the Cabinet Office, were examined (HC 599-i).

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[Adjourned till Wednesday 4 March 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.

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    Draft Report (The Sale of the Stationery Office), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 4 read and agreed to.

Paragraph 5 postponed.

Paragraphs 6 to 61 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 5 read and agreed to.

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


 
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