MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE
OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
SESSION 2001-02
MONDAY 10 DECEMBER 2001
Members present:
Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair
| Mr Richard Bacon | Mr George Osborne
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| Mr Barry Gardiner | Mr David Rendel
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| Mr Nick Gibb | Mr Gerry Steinberg
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| Mr Brian Jenkins | Mr Alan Williams
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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 Ministry of Defence:
Major Projects Report 2001 (HC 330) was considered.
Sir Robert Walmsley, KCB, FREng, Chief of Defence Procurement
and Chief Executive, Defence Procurement Agency, was further examined;
Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham, KCB, Deputy Chief of Defence
Staff (Equipment Capability), Ministry of Defence, was examined;
and Mr Tim Banfield, Director, National Audit Office, was examined
(HC 448-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.
The witnesses withdrew.
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[Adjourned until Wednesday 12 December at Four o'clock.
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MONDAY 24 JUNE 2002
Members present:
Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair
| Mr Richard Bacon | Mr George Osborne
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| Geraint Davies | Mr David Rendel
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| Mr Frank Field | Mr Gerry Steinberg
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| Mr Nick Gibb | Jon Trickett
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| Mr George Howarth | Mr Alan Williams
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Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, was further
examined.
The Committee deliberated.
Lorraine Constable, Assistant Treasury Officer of Accounts, was
further examined.
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Draft Report (Ministry of Defence: Major Projects Report 2001),
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 27 read and agreed to.
Postponed paragraph 5 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report be the Forty-first 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 Wednesday 26 June at Four o'clock.
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