Public Accounts Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]
Regenerating the English Coalfields

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1 March 2010.

Oral evidenceTaken before the Committee of Public Accounts on Monday 11 January 2010

Members present:

Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair

Mr Richard Bacon	Keith Hill
Mr Ian Davidson	Mr Austin Mitchell
Nigel Griffiths	Mr Alan Williams

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CONTENTS

Mr Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General, Gabrielle Cohen, Assistant Auditor General and Mr David Corner, Director, National Audit Office, were in attendance.

Mr Marius Gallaher, Alternate Treasury Officer of Accounts, HM Treasury, was in attendance

REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL

REGENERATING THE ENGLISH COALFIELDS (HC 84)

Witnesses: Mr Peter Housden, Permanent Secretary, Sir Bob Kerslake, Chief Executive, Homes and Communities Agency, Mr Richard McCarthy, Director General, Housing and Planning, Department for Communities and Local Government and Professor Steve Fothergill, Director, Industrial Communities Alliance, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-59

60-79

80-99

100-102

Supplementary memorandum from the Department of Communities and Local Government

Coalfields Forward Action Plan—How the Department will take forward recommendations from NAO Report— Regenerating the English Coalfields

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Prepared 10 March 2010