Select Committee on Public Accounts Minutes of Proceedings Report


WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2002

  Members present:

  Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair


  
Mr Richard BaconMr Nick Gibb
Geraint DaviesMr Brian Jenkins
Mr Barry GardinerMr Gerry Steinberg

Mr Tim Burr, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General, was further examined.

The Committee deliberated.

Mr Brian Glicksman, Treasury Officer of Accounts, was further examined.

The Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on Opening the Post: Postcomm and postal services—the risks and opportunities (HC 521) was considered.

Mr Martin Stanley, Chief Executive, and Mr Graham Corbett CBE, Chairman, Postal Services Commission, were examined; Mr Harry Bush, Director, Enterprise and Growth Unit, HM Treasury, was examined (HC 632-i).

The witnesses withdrew.

The Committee further deliberated.

Resolved, That, further to the evidence taken this day, the Committee do take evidence from Consignia on the Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on Opening the Post: Postcomm and postal services - the risks and opportunities.

Draft Report (The Channel Tunnel Rail Link), 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 47 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 5 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Twenty-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.

Another draft Report (Report on Inland Revenue Appropriation Account 1999-2000), 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 43 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 4 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Twenty-third 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 until Monday 25 February at half past Four o'clock.





 
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