Public Accounts Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]
Department for Work and Pensions: Management of Benefit Overpayment Debt

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 8 March 2010.

Oral evidenceTaken before the Committee of Public Accounts on Wednesday 28 October 2009

Members present:

Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair

Mr David Curry	Mr Austin Mitchell
Mr Ian Davidson	Dr John Pugh
Nigel Griffiths

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CONTENTS

Mr Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr Rob Prideaux, Director Parliamentary Relations and Ms Liane Hinds, Director, National Audit Office, gave evidence.

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

REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL

DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS:

MANAGEMENT OF BENEFIT OVERPAYMENT DEBT [HC 294]

Witnesses: Sir Leigh Lewis, KCB, Permanent Secretary, Mr John Codling, Finance Director General and Mrs Carol Sheridan, Head of Debt Management, Department for Work and Pensions, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-59

60-79

80-88

Supplementary memorandum from the Department for Work and Pensions

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Prepared 17 March 2010