Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Minutes of Evidence[Back to Report]

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 16 July 2003.

Oral evidence

Taken before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

on Wednesday 18 June 2003

Members present:

Mr David Curry, in the Chair

Mr David Borrow	Mr Austin Mitchell
Mr Colin Breed	Mrs Gillian Shephard
Mr David Drew	Alan Simpson
Mr Michael Jack	Paddy Tipping
Mr David Lepper	Mr Bill Wiggin

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CONTENTS

Memorandum submitted by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Further memorandum submitted by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Further memorandum submitted by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Examination of Witnesses

Sir Brian Bender, KCB, Permanent Secretary, Defra, Mr Paul Elliott, Rural Economies and Communities Director, Defra, Mr Andrew Burchell, Finance Director, Defra and Mr David Bills, Director General, Forestry Commission, examined.

Question Number

1-19

20-39

40-59

60-79

80-99

100-101

Supplementary memorandum submitted by DEFRA

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Prepared 23 July 2003