Select Committee on Public Accounts Minutes of Proceedings Report


WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE 2002

  Members present:

  Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair


  
Mr Richard BaconMr George Osborne
Mr Ian DavidsonMr David Rendel
Geraint DaviesMr Gerry Steinberg
Mr George HowarthJon Trickett
Mr Brian JenkinsMr Alan Williams
Ms Ruth Kelly

Sir John Bourn KCB, 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 Private Finance Initiative: Redevelopment of MOD Main Building (HC 748), was considered.

Sir Kevin Tebbit KCB, CMG, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, was further examined; Mr Jonathan Hoyle, Director, Main Building Development, Ministry of Defence, was examined; Mr Matthew Webber, Chairman, and Mr Les Mitchell, Managing Director, Modus Services plc were examined; and Mr Jeremy Colman, Assistant Auditor General, National Audit Office, was further examined (HC 1013-i).

A division of the House being called, the Chairman suspended the meeting for ten minutes.

The Committee resumed.

The witnesses were further examined.

The witnesses withdrew.

The Committee further deliberated (autumn programme).

The Committee further deliberated (follow-up to the Committee's visit to Kensington Palace, 13 June 2002.

Draft Report (The use of funding competitions in PFI projects: The Treasury Building), 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 16 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 5 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report, as amended, be the Forty-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.

Another draft Report (The misuse and smuggling of hydrocarbon oils), 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 36 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 5 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report, as amended, be the Forty-fourth 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 1 July at Four o'clock.





 
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