Public Accounts - Minutes of Evidence

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 May 2006.

Oral evidence

Taken before the Committee of Public Accounts

on Monday 13 February 2006

Members present:

Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair	Kitty Ussher
Mr Richard Bacon	Mr Alan Williams
Mr David Curry
Jon Trickett

Mr J M Dowdall CB, Comptroller and Auditor General, Northern Ireland Audit Office, was in attendance and gave oral evidence.

Mr David Thomson, Northern Ireland Treasury Officer of Accounts, was in attendance.

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CONTENTS

Witnesses: Mr Stephen Quinn, Permanent Secretary; Mr Noel Lavery, Finance Director, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment; Mr Leslie Morrison, Chief Executive and Accounting Officer, and Mr Charles Harding, Head of Corporate Finance Appraisal and Advisory Division, Invest Northern Ireland; gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-59

60-79

80-99

100-119

120-139

140-155

Letter from the Permanent Secretary, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to the Clerk of the Committee

Letter from Mr Billy Bell OBE MLA to the Chairman of the Committee

Letter from Mrs Teresa Townsley to the Chairman of the Committee

Supplementary memorandum from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment

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Prepared 18 May 2006