Select Committee on Public Accounts Fifty-Second Report


PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO THE REPORT

Session 1997-98

WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL 1998

Members present:

Mr David Davis, in the Chair


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


Mr Bob Le Marechal, CB, Deputy 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 Appropriation Accounts 1996-97 Volume 3: Class III (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: The Intervention Board) (HC 251-III) was considered.

Mr George Trevelyan, Chief Executive, Mr G Jenkins, Finance Director, and Mr R Bryant, Chief Account, the Intervention Board, were examined (HC 676-i)

[Adjourned till Wednesday 27 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 EagleMr Richard Page
Ms Jane GriffithsMr Charles Wardle
Mr Christopher Leslie



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

The Committee deliberated.

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Another draft Report (Intervention Board Executive Agency: Qualification of 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 42 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 6 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Fifty-second 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.

[Adjourned till Monday 22 June at half past Four o'clock.


 
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