Formal minutes
MONDAY 4 DECEMBER 2006
Members present:
Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair
| Mr Richard Bacon
Mr David Curry
Mr Ian Davidson
Mr Philip Dunne
| | Helen Goodman
Mr Sadiq Khan
Mr Austin Mitchell
Mr Alan Williams
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Oral evidence
Sir John Bourn KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, was in attendance.
Ms Paula Diggle, Treasury Officer of Accounts, was
in attendance.
The Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on A
foot on the ladder: Low cost home ownership (HC 1048, Session
2005-06) was considered.
Mr Peter Housden, Permanent Secretary, Department
for Communities and Local Government, Mr Jon Rouse, Chief Executive,
Housing Corporation and Mr David Corner, Director, National Audit
Office, gave oral evidence (HC 134-i).
The witnesses withdrew.
Draft Reports
A draft Report (Department for Work and Pensions:
Using leaflets to communicate with the public about services and
entitlements), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.
Ordered, That the draft
Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 25 read and agreed to.
Conclusions and recommendations read and agreed to.
Summary read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report
be the Seventh Report of the Committee to the House.
Ordered, That the Chairman
make the Report to the House.
Ordered, That embargoed
copies of the Report be made available, in accordance with the
provisions of Standing Order No. 134.
[Adjourned until Wednesday 6 December at 3.30 pm.
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