MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF
THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
SESSION 2001-02
MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2002
Members present:
Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair
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Mr Richard Bacon |
Mr David Rendel |
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Mr Ian Davidson |
Mr Gerry Steinberg |
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Mr Nick Gibb |
Jon Trickett |
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Mr Brian Jenkins |
Mr Alan Williams |
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Mr George Osborne |
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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 The Misuse and Smuggling of Hydrocarbon Oils (HC 614) was considered.
Mr Richard Broadbent, Chairman, HM Customs and Excise, was further examined; and Mr Mike Wells, Director, Law Enforcement Policy, HM Customs and Excise, was examined (HC 649-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.
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[Adjourned until Monday 4 March at half past Four o'clock.
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WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE 2002
Members present:
Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair
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Mr Richard Bacon |
Mr George Osborne |
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Mr Ian Davidson |
Mr David Rendel |
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Geraint Davies |
Mr Gerry Steinberg |
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Mr George Howarth |
Jon Trickett |
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Mr Brian Jenkins |
Mr Alan Williams |
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Ms Ruth Kelly |
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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.
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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.
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[Adjourned until Monday 1 July at Four o'clock.
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