PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE
RELATING TO THE REPORT
Session 1997-98
MONDAY 27 APRIL 1998
Members present:
Mr David Davis, in the Chair
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
| Mr Christopher Leslie |
| Mr Ian Davidson | Mr Richard Page
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| Ms Maria Eagle | Mr Alan Williams
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| Mr Phil Hope |
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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
Appropriation Accounts 1996-97, Class IX: Department for Education
and Employment (Overpayments to Training and Enterprise Councils)
(HC 251-ix) was considered.
Mr Michael Bichard, Permanent Secretary,
the Department for Education and Employment (HC 704-i) was further
examined.
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[Adjourned till Wednesday 29 April at half past Four
o'clock.
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Session 1997-98
WEDNESDAY 1 JULY 1998
Members present:
Mr David Davis, in the Chair
| Mr Alan Campbell | Mr Robert Maclennan
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| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
| Mr Richard Page |
| Ms Jane Griffiths | Mr Charles Wardle
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| Mr Christopher Leslie |
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Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General,
was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
Mr Jamie Mortimer, Treasury Officer of Accounts,
was further examined.
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Draft Report (Department for Education and Employment:
The Overpayment to Training and Enterprise Councils) 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 44 read and agreed to.
Postponed paragraph 5 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report
be the Fifty-sixth 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 15 July at half past Four
o'clock.
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