PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO
THE REPORT
Session 1997-98
MONDAY 30 MARCH 1998
Members present:
Mr David Davis, in the Chair
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
| Mr Christopher Leslie |
| Ms Maria Eagle | Mr Andrew Love
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| Ms Jane Griffiths | Mr Alan Williams
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| Mr Phil Hope |
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Mr Bob Le Marechal, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor
General, was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
Mr M Daynes, Director of Audit, the National Audit
Office, was examined.
Mr Frank Martin, Second Treasury Officer of Accounts,
was examined.
The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on The
Appropriation Accounts 1996-97: Volume I, Class I, Ministry of
Defence (HC 251-i) was considered.
Sir Richard Mottram, KCB, Permanent Under-Secretary
of State; and Sir Robert Walmsley, KCB, Chief of Defence Procurement,
the Ministry of Defence, were examined (HC 671-i).
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[Adjourned till Wednesday 1 April at half past Four
o'clock.
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Session 1997-98
WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE 1998
Members present:
Mr David Davis, in the Chair
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
| Mr Andrew Love |
| Ms Maria Eagle | Mr Richard Page
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| Ms Jane Griffiths | Mr Charles Wardle
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| Mr Christopher Leslie |
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Mr Bob Le Marechal, CB, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor
General, was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
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Draft Report (Ministry of Defence: Appropriation
Accounts 1996-97), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.
Ordered, That the draft
Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 5 read and agreed to.
Paragraph 6 postponed.
Paragraphs 7 to 45 read and agreed to.
Postponed paragraph 6 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report
be the Fifty-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 22 June at half past Four
o'clock.
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