Public Accounts - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]

---

Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 28 January 2008.

Oral evidence

Taken before the Committee of Public Accounts

on Wednesday 10 October 2007

Asterisks in the oral evidence denote that part or all of a document has not been reported, at the request of HM Revenue and Customs and with the agreement of the Committee.

Members present:

In the absence of the chairman, Mr Alan Williams was called to the chair
Mr Philip Dunne	Mr Richard Bacon
Mr Austin Mitchell	Angela Browning
Mr Don Touhig	Mr David Curry

CONTENTS

---

Sir John Bourn KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr Tim Burr, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr John Thorpe, Director National Audit Office, were in attendance and gave oral evidence.

Ms Paula Diggle, Treasury Officer of Accounts, HM Treasury, was in attendance.

REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL

HM Revenue & Customs 2006-07 (HC 626)

Witnesses: Mr Paul Gray CB, Chairman, HM Revenue & Customs, Ms Sarah Walker, Director, Benefits and Credits, HM Revenue & Customs and Mr Michael Shipp, Director PAYE, Self Assessment, NICs, HM Revenue & Customs, gave evidence.

Question Numbers:

1-19

20-39

40-59

60-79

80-99

100-119

120-139

140-142

Letter from Chairman, HM Revenue and Customs to Committee Chairman

Memorandum submitted by the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group

Supplementary memorandum submitted by HM Revenue and Customs

Supplementary memorandum submitted by the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group

---

---

Prepared 5 February 2008