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| Session 2002-03 |
 | 11 March 2004 | HC 1315 | ISBN 0 21 501588 6 | £8.50 |
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| 15 September 2003 | HC1087-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Sue Street, Permanent Secretary and Accounting Officer, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Mr Peter Hewitt, Chief Executive, Arts Council England, on 10 September 2003 Progress on 15 major capital projects funded by Arts Council England | |||
| 8 July 2003 | HC934-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Mr Pat Toal, Accounting Officer, Mr Gerry Lavery, Director of Finance, and Mr Ronnie Jordan, Director of Rural Payments, Department for Agriculture and Rural Development, Northern Ireland, on 2 July 2003 The Sheep Annual Premium Scheme | |||
| 25 June 2003 | HC835-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Mr Callum McCarthy, Chairman of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority and Chief Executive, Mr John Neilson, Managing Director, Customers and Supply, and Dr Boaz Moselle, Managing Director, Competition and Trading Arrangements, Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), on 18th June 2003 The New Electricity Trading Arrangements in England and Wales | |||
| 31 March 2003 | HC581-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Sir Robin Young KCB, Permanent Secretary and Mr Jonathan Reese, Director, Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate, Department of Trade and Industry, and Dr Jeffery W Llewellyn, Chief Executive and Mr Richard Frewin, Trading Standards Advisor, National Weights and Measures Laboratory, on 26 March 2003 Regulation of Weights and Measures | |||
| 27 March 2003 | HC567-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Mr Peter Gershon CBE, Chief Executive, Office of Government Commerce; Mr Turlogh O'Brien CBE, Chairman, and Mr Alan Gilbertson, Chairman of the CIC Public Sector Procurement Panel, Construction Industry Council (CIC) on 24 March 2003 PFI: Construction Performance | |||
| 20 March 2003 | HC546-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Professor John Vickers, Director General of Fair Trading, Miss Penny Boys, Deputy Director of Fair Trading, and Miss Caroline Banks, Director of Consumer Regulation Enforcement, Office of Fair Trading (OFT), on 17 March 2003 Progress in Protecting Consumers' Interests | |||
| 14 February 2003 | HC414-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Sir John Bourn KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr Rob Molan, Secondary Treasury of Accounts, Mr Brian Bender, Permanent Secretary, Dr Tony Burne, Head of Research Policy and International Division, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Professor Julia Goodfellow, Chief Executive, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Dr Harry Griffin, Acting Director and Chief Executive, Roslin Institute and Proffessor Grahame Bulfield, CBE, Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh, on 5 February 2003 Reaping the rewards of agricultural research | |||
| 12 February 2003 | HC398-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Sir John Bourn KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, and MR Ron Parker, National Audit Office, Mr Brian Glicksman, Treasury Officer of Accounts, Mr Richard Broadbent, Chairman, Mr Mike Norgrove, Director Intelligence, and Mr Ray McAfee CB, Director Regional Business Services and Taxes, HM Customs and Excise, on 3 February 2003 HM Customs and Excise Accounts 2001-02: Standard Report | |||
| 31 January 2003 | HC352-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Mr Brian Bender CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Baroness Young of Old Scone, Chief Executive and Mr Steve Lee, Head of Waste Regulation, Environment Agency, on 22 January 2003 Protecting the Public from Waste | |||
| 15 January 2003 | HC189-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Mr Paul Gray, Second Permanent Secretary and Managing Director, Pensions and Disability, Department for Work and Pensions, and Mrs Harriet Maunsell, Chairman, and Mr Tony Hobman, Chief Executive, Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority, on 16 December 2002 OPRA: Tackling The Risks to Pension Scheme Members | |||
| 8 January 2003 | HC170-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Mr Gus O'Donnell CB, Permanent Secretary and Head of the Government Economic Service, and Mr Adam Sharples, Director, Public Spending, HM Treasury; Mr John Gieve CB, Permanent Secretary, Home Office; and Mr Leigh Lewis CB, Chief Executive, Jobcentre Plus, Department for Work and Pensions, on 9 December 2002 Invest to Save Budget | |||
| 13 December 2002 | HC135-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Mr Nigel Crisp, Permanent Secretary and NHS Chief Executive, Dr David Harper, and Mr Alan Doran, on 27 November 2002 Facing the Challenge. NHS Emergency Planning in England | |||
| 26 November 2002 | HC80-i | Uncorrected Evidence presented by Ms Rachel Lomax, Permanent Secretary, and Mr Ian McBrayne, Head of Civil Aviation Division, Department for Transport; Mr Richard Everitt, Chief Executive, National Air Traffic Services Ltd, on 18 November 2002 The Public Private Partnership for National Air Traffic Services Ltd | |||
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| 6 June 2003 | HC 590-i | ||||
| Minutes of Evidence for Monday 31 March 2003 Sir John Bourn KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr Brian Glicksman, Treasury Officer of Accounts, HM Treasury, further examined. Ms Mavis McDonald, CB Permanent Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and Dr Norman Perry, Chief Executive, The Housing Corporation, examined. Improving Social Housing Through Transfer | ||||||
| 28 May 2003 | HC 332-i | ||||
| Minutes of Evidence for Monday 20 January 2003 Sir John Bourn KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr Nigel Gale, Director, National Audit Office, further examined. Mr Brian Glicksman, Treasury Officer of Accounts, HM Treasury, further examined. Sir Nicholas Montagu KCB, Chairman, Mr David Hartnett CB, Director General (Policy and Technical) and Mr Steve Heminsley, Director, National Services, Inland Revenue, examined. The Accounts of the Inland Revenue 2001-02 | ||||||
| 7 April 2003 | HC 461 | ISBN 0 215 00928 2 | £3.00 | ||
| Minutes of Evidence for Monday 24 February 2003 Mr John Dowdall, Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr John Savage, Assistant Auditor General, Northern Ireland Audit Office Northern Ireland Audit Office Supply Estimate 2003-04 | ||||||
| 7 April 2003 | HC 460 | ISBN 0 215 00930 4 | £4.00 | ||
| Minutes of Evidence for Monday 24 February 2003 Sir John Bourn KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr Tim Burr, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr Michael Whitehouse, Assistant Auditor General, National Audit Office National Audit Office Supply Estimate 2003-04 | ||||||
| Reports | ||||||
| Forty-eighth Report | The Public Private Partnership for National Air Traffic Services Ltd | |||||
| 9 December 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 80 | ISBN 0 21 501411 1 | £13.50 | |
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| Forty-seventh Report | Film Council: Improving access to, and education about, the moving image through the British Film Institute | |||||
| 4 December 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 685 | ISBN 0 21 501393 X | £9.00 | |
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| Forty-ninth Report | The operational performance of PFI prisions | |||||
| 2 December 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 904 | ISBN 0 21 501406 5 | £11.00 | |
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| Forty-fifth Report | Protecting public health and consumer interests in relation to food: the Food Standards Agency | |||||
| 27 November 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 708 | ISBN 0 21 501390 5 | £12.00 | |
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| Forty-sixth Report | Ministry of Defence: Building an air manoeuvre capability: the introduction of the Apache Helicopter | |||||
| 18 November 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 533 | ISBN 0 21 501381 6 | £10.00 | |
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| Forty-third Report | Fisheries enforcement in England | |||||
| 13 November 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 752 | ISBN 0 21 501352 2 | £9.00 | |
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| Forty-forth Report | New IT systems for Magistrates' Courts: the Libra project | |||||
| 11 November 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 434 | ISBN 0 21 501367 0 | £13.00 | |
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| Forty-second Report | A Safer place to work: Improving the management of health and safety risks to staff in NHS trusts | |||||
| 15 October 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 704 | ISBN 0 21 501311 5 | £10.00 | |
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| Forty-first Report | Modernising procurement in the Prison Service | |||||
| 18 September 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 676 | ISBN 0 21 501264 X | £9.00 | |
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| Thirty-third Report | Ensuring the effective discharge of older patients from NHS acute hospitals | |||||
| 17 September 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 459 | ISBN 0 21 501186 4 | £10.00 | |
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| Thirty-seventh Report | Ministry of Defence: The construction of nuclear submarine facilities at Devonport | |||||
| 10 September 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 636 | ISBN 0 21 501261 5 | £10.00 | |
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| Fortieth Report | Improving social housing through transfer | |||||
| 24 July 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 590 | ISBN 0 21 501211 9 | £10.00 | |
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| Thirty-ninth Report | A safer place to work: Protecting NHS hospital and ambulance staff from violence and aggression | |||||
| 23 July 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 641 | ISBN 0 21 501207 0 | £9.00 | |
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| Thirty-sixth Report | Improving service quality: Action in response to the Inherited SERPS problem | |||||
| 17 July 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 616 | ISBN 0 21 501193 7 | £10.00 | |
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| Thirty-fifth Report | PFI Construction Performance | |||||
| 16 July 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 567 | ISBN 0 21 501183 X | £11.00 | |
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| Thirty-second Report | The Highways Agency: Maintaining England's motorways and trunk roads | |||||
| 11 July 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 556 | ISBN 0 21 501167 8 | £9.00 | |
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| Thirty-eighth Report | Department of Trade and Industry: Regulation of weights and measures | |||||
| 10 July 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 581 | ISBN 0 21 501168 6 | £9.00 | |
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| Thirty-fourth Report | The Office of Fair Trading: progress in protecting consumers' interests | |||||
| 9 July 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 546 | ISBN 0 21 501165 1 | £9.00 | |
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| Thirty-first Report | Tackling Benefit Fraud | |||||
| 4 July 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 488 | ISBN 0 21 501154 6 | £12.00 | |
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| Thirtieth Report | Department for International Development: Maximising Impact in the Water Sector | |||||
| 3 July 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral evidence | HC 446 | ISBN 0 21 501153 8 | £9.00 | |
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| Twenty-ninth Report | Inland Revenue: Tax Credits and Tax Debt Management | |||||
| 2 July 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence | HC 332 | ISBN 0 21 501144 9 | £9.00 | |
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| Twenty-seventh Report | The Management of Substitution Cover for Teachers | |||||
| 26 June 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, and oral evidence | HC 473 | ISBN 0 21 501135 X | £9.00 | |
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| Twenty-sixth Report | Safety, Quality, Efficacy: Regulating Medicines in the UK | |||||
| 26 June 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, oral and minutes of evidence | HC 505 | ISBN 0 21 501137 6 | £9.00 | |
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| Twenty-fifth Report | Protecting the Public from Waste | |||||
| 25 June 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes and minutes of evidence | HC 352 | ISBN 0 21 501129 5 | £9.00 | |
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| Twenty-fourth Report | Community Legal Service: The Introduction of Contracting | |||||
| 20 June 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes and minutes of evidence | HC 185 | ISBN 0 21 501109 0 | £11.00 | |
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| Twenty-eighth Report | Delivering better value for money from the Private Finance Initiative | |||||
| 19 June 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes and an appendix | HC 764 | ISBN 0 21 501124 4 | £9.00 | |
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| Twenty-Third Report | Innovation in the NHS - the acquisition of the Heart Hospital | |||||
| 18 June 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes and minutes of evidence | HC 299 | ISBN 0 21 501110 4 | £10.00 | |
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| Twenty-Second Report | PFI refinancing update | |||||
| 13 June 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes and minutes of evidence | HC 203 | ISBN 0 21 501097 3 | £10.00 | |
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| Twenty-First Report | The operations of HM Customs and Excise in 2001-02 | |||||
| 12 June 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes and minutes of evidence | HC 398 | ISBN 0 21 501096 5 | £10.00 | |
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| Nineteenth Report | The PFI contract for the redevelopment of West Middlesex University Hospital | |||||
| 6 June 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes and minutes of evidence | HC 155 | ISBN 0 21 501095 7 | £11.00 | |
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| Twentieth Report | Better public services through call centres | |||||
| 5 June 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes and minutes of evidence | HC 373 | ISBN 0 21 501094 9 | £10.00 | |
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| Eighteenth Report | Reaping the Rewards of Agricultural Research | |||||
| 16 May 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, and minutes of evidence | HC 414 | ISBN 0 21 501072 8 | £7.50 | |
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| Sixteenth Report | Improving Public Services through Innovation: The Invest to Save Budget | |||||
| 9 May 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, minutes of evidence | HC 170 | ISBN 0 21 501062 2 | £9.50 | |
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| Seventeenth Report | Helping victims and witnesses: the work of Victim Support | |||||
| 8 May 2003 | Report, together with formal minutes, minutes of evidence and an appendix | HC 635 | ISBN 0 21 501060 4 | £9.50 | |
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| Fifteenth Report | OPRA: Tackling the Risks to Pension Scheme Members | |||||
| 2 May 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix | HC 589 | ISBN 0 21 501044 2 | £7.50 | |
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| Fourteenth Report | Royal Mint Trading Fund 2001-02 Accounts | |||||
| 17 April 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices | HC 588 | ISBN 0 21 501026 4 | £9.00 | |
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| Eleventh Report | Facing the Challenge: NHS Emergency Planning in England | |||||
| 16 April 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix | HC 545 | ISBN 0 21 501025 6 | £9.00 | |
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| Thirteenth Report | Ministry of Defence: Progress in Reducing Stocks | |||||
| 11 April 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix | HC 566 | ISBN 0 21 501012 4 | £7.50 | |
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| Twelfth Report | Tackling Pension Poverty: Encouraging Take-up of Entitlements | |||||
| 9 April 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix | HC 565 | ISBN 0 21 500934 7 | £9.00 | |
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| Tenth Report | Individual Learning Accounts | |||||
| 4 April 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices | HC 544 | ISBN 0 21 500918 5 | £11.00 | |
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| Ninth Report | The Office for National Statistics: Outsourcing the 2001 Census | |||||
| 26 March 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices | HC 543 | ISBN 0 21 500897 9 | £7.50 | |
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| Eighth Report | Excess Votes (Northern Ireland) 2001-02 | |||||
| 19 March 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee | HC 504 | ISBN 0 21 500882 0 | £3.50 | |
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| Seventh Report | Excess Votes 2001-02 | |||||
| 19 March 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee | HC 503 | ISBN 0 21 500885 5 | £6.00 | |
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| Fifth Report | The 2001 Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease | |||||
| 14 March 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix | HC 487 | ISBN 0 21 500869 3 | £12.00 | |
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| Sixth Report | Ministry of Defence: Exercise Saif Sareea II | |||||
| 12 March 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix | HC 502 | ISBN 0 21 500867 7 | £10.00 | |
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| Fourth Report | Private Finance Initiative: Redevelopment of MOD main Building | |||||
| 30 January 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix | HC 298 | ISBN 0 21 500771 9 | £10.00 | |
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| Third Report | Tobacco Smuggling | |||||
| 10 January 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices | HC 143 | ISBN 0 21 500728 X | £9.00 | |
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| Second Report | Dealing With Pollution From Ships | |||||
| 9 January 2003 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix | HC 119 | ISBN 0 21 500726 3 | £9.00 | |
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| First Report | Collecting the Television Licence Fee | |||||
| 18 December 2002 | Report, together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices | HC 118 | ISBN 0 21 500698 4 | £10.00 | |
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