Select Committee on Public Accounts Sixty-Sixth Report


MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF

THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

SESSION 2001-02

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.

The Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on Government on the Web II (HC 764), was considered.

Mavis McDonald CB, Permanent Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, was further examined; Mr Andrew Whetnall, Director for Local Government, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, was examined; Mr Andrew Pinder, e-Envoy, Office of the e-Envoy, was further examined; Mr Richard Broadbent, Chairman, HM Customs and Excise, was further examined; and Mr Alex Fraser, Director, Logistics, HM Customs and Excise, was examined (HC 936-i).

The witnesses withdrew.

The Committee further deliberated.

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[Adjourned until Monday 17 June at Four o'clock.

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MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2002

Members present:

Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair


Mr Richard BaconMr George Osborne
Mr Ian DavidsonMr David Rendel
Angela EagleMr Gerry Steinberg
Mr Frank FieldJon Trickett
Mr George HowarthMr Alan Williams
Mr Brian Jenkins


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 (Progress in achieving Government on the Web), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 3 read and agreed to.

Paragraph 4 postponed.

Paragraphs 5 to 22 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 4 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Sixty-sixth 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 6 November at Four o'clock.



 
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