Select Committee on Public Accounts Fifty-Ninth Report


PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO THE REPORT

Session 1997-98

WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 1998

Members present:

Mr David Davis, in the Chair


Mr Alan CampbellMr Richard Page
Ms Maria EagleMr Charles Wardle
Mr Christopher Leslie Mr Alan Williams


Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, was further examined.

The Committee deliberated.

Mr Kevin Dixon, Assistant Treasury Officer of Accounts, was further examined.

The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on HM Coastguard: Civil Maritime Search and Rescue (HC 544) was considered.

Mr Maurice Storey, Chief Executive, and Mr John Astbury, Chief Coastguard, HM Maritime and Coastguard Agency, were examined (HC 741-i)

[Adjourned till Monday 18 May at half past Four o'clock.

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Session 1997-98

WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 1998

Members present:

Mr David Davis, in the Chair


Mr Alan CampbellMr Christopher Leslie
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Mr Andrew Love
Mr Geraint DaviesMr Robert Maclennan
Ms Jane GriffithsMr Charles Wardle
Mr Phil HopeMr Alan Williams


Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, was further examined.

The Committee deliberated.

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Draft Report (HM Coastguard: Civil Maritime Search and Rescue) proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 and 2 read and agreed to.

Paragraph 3 postponed.

Paragraphs 4 to 36 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 3 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report, as amended, be the Fifty-ninth 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 22 July at half past Four o'clock.


 
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