Public Accounts - Eighth Report

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 18 July 2005.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Report

Summary

Proper accountability and monitoring arrangements were not put in place

Viability of the Centre was in doubt from an early stage

Forecasts of visitor numbers were misleading

Lessons learned from this project

Conclusions and recommendations

1 The complex funding and accountability arrangements

2 The over optimistic visitor numbers and the marketing strategy

3 The unsatisfactory monitoring of the Centre

General conclusion

Formal minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

ORAL EVIDENCE
Tuesday 2 November 2004

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Prepared 29 September 2005