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A second progress update on the administration of the Single Payment Scheme by the Rural Payments Agency

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 30 November 2009.

Oral evidenceTaken before the Committee of Public Accounts on Monday 26 October 2009

Members present:

Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair

Mr Richard Bacon	Mr Don Touhig
Mr David Curry	Mr Alan Williams

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Mr Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General, Gabrielle Cohen, Assistant Auditor General and Mr Phil Gibby, Director, National Audit Office, gave evidence.

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

REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL

A SECOND PROGRESS UPDATE ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SINGLE PAYMENT SCHEME BY THE RURAL PAYMENTS AGENCY (HC 880)

CONTENTS

Witnesses: Dame Helen Ghosh DCB, Permanent Secretary, Ms Katrina Williams, Director General, Food and Farming, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and Mr Tony Cooper, Chief Executive, Rural Payments Agency, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-59

60-79

80-99

100-119

120-139

140-159

160-161

Supplementary memorandum from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Memorandum from the NFU

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Prepared 16 December 2009