Select Committee on Public Accounts Thirty-Ninth Report


MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

SESSION 2001-02

WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2001

Members present:

Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair


Mr Richard BaconMr Brian Jenkins
Mr Ian DavidsonMr David Rendel
Geraint DaviesMr Gerry Steinberg
Mr Barry GardinerMr Alan Williams
Mr Nick Gibb

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

The Committee deliberated.

Mr Glenn Hull, Second Treasury Officer of Accounts, was further examined.

The Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on Giving Confidently: The Role of the Charity Commission in Regulating Charities (HC 234) was considered.

Mr John Stoker, Chief Commissioner, and Mr Simon Gillespie, Director of Operations, Charity Commission, were examined (HC 412-i).

Ordered, That for the remainder of the evidence to be taken this day, the Committee meet in private.—(The Chairman).

The witnesses were further examined.

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[Adjourned until Monday 3 December at half past Four o'clock.

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WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE 2002

  Members present:

  Mr Edward Leigh in the Chair


  
Mr Richard BaconMr George Osborne
Geraint DaviesMr David Rendel
Mr George HowarthMr Alan Williams
Mr Brian Jenkins

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

The Committee deliberated.

Mr Rob Molan, Second Treasury Officer of Accounts, was further examined.

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Draft Report (Giving Confidently: The role of the Charity Commission in Regulating Charities), 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 23 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 5 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Thirty-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 until Monday 17 June at Four o'clock.

 
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