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Reducing errors in the benefits system

Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 2 March 2011.

Oral Evidence

Taken before the Committee of Public Accounts

on Wednesday 8 December 2010

Members present:

Rt Hon Mrs Margaret Hodge (Chair) Matthew Hancock

Mr Richard Bacon Mrs Anne McGuire

Stephen Barclay Nick Smith

Stella Creasy Ian Swales

Jackie DoylePrice

CONTENTS

Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General, and Phil Gibby, Director, gave evidence. Gabrielle Cohen, Assistant Auditor General, and Marius Gallaher, Alternate Treasury Officer of Accounts, were in attendance.

REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL

Reducing errors in the benefits system (HC 569)

Witnesses: Sir Leigh Lewis KCB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions, Mr John Oliver, Director of Benefit Performance, Department for Work and Pensions, and Ms Ruth Owen, Chief Operating Officer, Jobcentre Plus, gave evidence.

Question Numbers:

1-158