Public Accounts - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 18 February 2008.

Oral evidence

Taken before the Committee of Public Accounts

on Monday 22 October 2007

Members present:

Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair	Mr Don Touhig
Mr Richard Bacon	Mr Alan Williams
Mr Austin Mitchell

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CONTENTS

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

Paula Diggle, was in attendance.

REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL

Coal Health Compensation Schemes (HC 608)

Witnesses: Sir Brian Bender KCB, Permanent Secretary, Ian McKenzie, Director, Coal Liabilities Unit, and Mark Jones, Assistant Director, Coal Liabilities Unit (Contracts), Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, gave evidence.

Question Numbers:

1-19

20-39

40-59

60-79

80-99

100-107

Memorandum submitted by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Letter from Mrs Ann Elizabeth Evans to Committee Chairman

Supplementary memorandum submitted by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Further supplementary memorandum submitted by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Letter from Sir Brian Bender

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Prepared 4 March 2008