MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF
THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
SESSION 2001-02
WEDNESDAY 15 MAY 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 Barry Gardiner |
Mr Alan Williams |
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 Construction of Portcullis House, the new Parliamentary building (HC 750), was considered.
Sir William McKay KCB, Clerk of the House of Commons and Chief Executive; Mr Andrew Walker, Director of Finance and Administration, and Mr Michael Barram, Director of Finance Policy, Department of Finance and Administration; Mr Henry Webber, Director of Estates, and Mr Andrew Makepeace, Project Sponsor, Parliamentary Estates Directorate, Department of the Serjeant at Arms, House of Commons, were examined (HC 861-i).
Mr David Rendel declared a non-pecuniary interest in having been a member of the Accommodation and Works Committee.
The witnesses were further examined.
The witnesses withdrew.
The Committee further deliberated.
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[Adjourned until Monday 20 May at Four o'clock.
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WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2002
Members present:
Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair
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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 Brian Jenkins |
Mr Alan Williams |
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Mr Nigel Jones |
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Mr Tim Burr, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General, was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
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Draft Report (Construction of Portcullis House, the new Parliamentary Building), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.
Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 and 2 read and agreed to.
Paragraph 3 postponed.
Paragraphs 4 to 26 read and agreed to.
Postponed paragraph 3 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report be the Sixty-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.
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[Adjourned until Monday 21 October at Four o'clock.
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