Public Accounts Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]
Department for Transport: The failure of Metronet

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 22 February 2010.

Oral evidenceTaken before the Committee of Public Accounts on Monday 19 October 2009

Members present:

Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair

Mr Richard Bacon	Mr Austin Mitchell
Mr Ian Davidson	Dr John Pugh
Nigel Griffiths	Geraldine Smith
Keith Hill	Mr Don Touhig

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CONTENTS

Mr Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr Richard Wade, Director, National Audit Office, were in attendance. Mr Ed Humpherson, Assistant Auditor General, National Audit Office, gave evidence.

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

REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL

THE FAILURE OF METRONET (HC 512)

Witnesses: Mr Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary and Mr Paul Collins, Head of Regional Transport, London and the South East, Department for Transport and Mr Chris Bolt, Arbiter, London Underground Public-Private Partnership, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-59

60-79

80-99

100-119

120-139

140-159

160-177

Supplementary memoranda from Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport

Written Ministerial Statement for 29 October 2009

Further supplementary memorandum from the Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport

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Prepared 2 March 2010