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Session 1997-98
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Public Accounts - Forty-First Report

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 June 1998.

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FORTY-FIRST REPORT

Introduction and Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations
Time and cost overruns
The quality of the building
The management of the project
The dispute with Wimpey

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO THE REPORT

EVIDENCE (Wednesday 4 March 1998) (HC 608-i (97-98))

WITNESSES

Professor John Krebs, Chief Executive, Mr Colin Read, Director, Finance and Information Systems, and Mr John Hansford, Director, Personnel and Estates, the Natural Environment Research Centre

Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General
Mr Frank Martin, Second Treasury Officer of Accounts