Select Committee on Public Accounts Forty-First Report


PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO THE REPORT

Session 1997-98

WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 1998

Members present:

Mr David Davis, in the Chair


Mr Alan CampbellMr Christopher Leslie
Mr Geraint DaviesMr Andrew Love
Ms Maria EagleMr Charles Wardle
Mr Phil HopeMr Alan Williams



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 Natural Environment Research Council: Construction of the Southampton Oceanography Centre (HC 494) was considered.

Professor John Krebs, Chief Executive, Mr C Read, Director, Finance and Information Systems, and Mr J Hansford, Director, Personnel and Estates, the Natural Environment Research Council, were examined (HC 608-i).

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The Committee further deliberated.

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[Adjourned till Monday 9 March at half past Four o'clock.

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Session 1997-98

WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 1998

  Members present:

Mr David Davis, in the Chair


Mr Alan CampbellMr Christopher Leslie
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Mr Andrew Love
Mr Geraint DaviesMr Alan William
Ms Maria Eagle


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

The Committee deliberated.

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Draft Report (The Construction of the Southampton Oceanography Centre), 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, amended and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Forty-first 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 Monday 15 June at half past Four o'clock.


 
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