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The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Helping over-indebted consumers

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 24 March 2010.

Oral evidence

Taken before the Committee of Public Accounts

on Monday 15 March 2010

Members present

Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair

Mr Richard Bacon	Mr David Curry
Mr Douglas Carswell	Nigel Griffiths

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Mr Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr Rob Prideaux, Director, Parliamentary Relations and Mr Chris Shapcott, Director, National Audit Office, gave evidence.

Mr Marius Gallaher, Alternate Treasury Officer of Accounts, HM Treasury, gave evidence.

REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL

HELPING OVER-INDEBTED CONSUMERS

CONTENTS

Witnesses: Mr Simon Fraser, Permanent Secretary, Mr Ben Coates, Deputy Director, Consumer Credit and Product Safety, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Ms Sue Lewis, Director, Savings and Investment, HM Treasury, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-68

Memorandum from Citizens Advice

Memorandum from the Insolvency Practitioners Association (IPA)

Supplementary memorandum from the Permanent Secretary, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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Prepared 8 April 2010