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Debate on Thursday, 15 May 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Edward Leigh. The answering member was Lord Touhig.
Debate on a motion to take note of the 41st and the 42nd and the 46th to the 65th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee of Session 2006-07, and of the Treasury Minutes on these Reports (Cm 7275, 7276 and 7322); and of the 1st to the 4th, the 6th and the 9th to the 13th Reports of the Committee of Session 2007-08, and of the Treasury Minutes on these Reports (Cm 7323 and 7364).

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Reference

475 c1591-634 

Session

2007-08

Department

Treasury
Committee of Public Accounts

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Richard Bacon | 475 c1608-12 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell). He is a colourful...
Andrew Mackinlay | 475 c1612 (Link to this contribution) He's good for a knighthood.

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Richard Bacon | 475 c1612 (Link to this contribution) I hope not. The next report I wish to consider is on the efficiency programme. We have had much dis...
John Pugh | 475 c1600-2 (Link to this contribution) I rise as a bit-part player in our Treasury team and also as a member of the PAC. In preparing for t...
Austin Mitchell | 475 c1602-8 (Link to this contribution) I was very keen to participate in this debate, particularly as our friend the Chairman of the Commit...
Austin Mitchell | 475 c1608 (Link to this contribution) Is it? We suggested that it needed a driving central authority, and our recommendation was accepted....
Speaker | 475 c1593 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions are to be brief, and we are discussing the Public Accounts Committee's reports....
Edward Leigh | 475 c1593-7 (Link to this contribution) That was a good intervention. There is a tradition in our civil service. We never interview Minister...
Lord Touhig | 475 c1597-600 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this debate because it is right that the House should have the opportunity to consider the...
Andrew Mackinlay | 475 c1615-8 (Link to this contribution) Anyway, having got that off my chest, let me say that the reports that we are considering are extrem...
Angela Eagle | 475 c1626 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to respond to what has been a very good debate. We often get quality rather t...
Speaker | 475 c1618 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am conscious of the fact that the hon. Gentleman feels strongly about the matters that he i...
Andrew Mackinlay | 475 c1618-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I accept your advice, but everything that I have said is refe...
Richard Bacon | 475 c1619 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is one of my heroes for the way he represents his constituents so independently a...
Andrew Mackinlay | 475 c1619 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, because I assure you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—indeed, I shall write ...
Speaker | 475 c1619 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman should relax. There is no need for him to write to me. I shall guide him i...
Andrew Mackinlay | 475 c1619 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for South Norfolk (Mr. Bacon) raised a legitimate point. One of the things acknowled...
Philip Dunne | 475 c1619-22 (Link to this contribution) It is an enormous pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay). As a former re...
Justine Greening | 475 c1622-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to participate in this debate on the reports of the Public Accounts Committee. The ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 475 c1615 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to delay the House on this subject, but I think that it does go to the heart of the is...
Speaker | 475 c1615 (Link to this contribution) Order. Foreign affairs is the last subject that we ought to stray into this afternoon.
Justine Greening | 475 c1613 (Link to this contribution) My alternative suggestion would be ““Gershon and on””, because that is what it will do.
Richard Bacon | 475 c1613 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. The Assets Recovery Agency has recovered only £23 mil...
Angela Eagle | 475 c1612 (Link to this contribution) I was seven years old when the eagle landed before, and the hon. Gentleman may also remember that oc...
Richard Bacon | 475 c1613 (Link to this contribution) I do remember that occasion, and it is time for a reprise. Harrison Ford has made a comeback, so I d...
Andrew Mackinlay | 475 c1614-5 (Link to this contribution) I think that I can claim to be the only hon. Member qualified unreservedly to congratulate the Chair...
Angela Eagle | 475 c1615 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I am not included in my hon. Friend's characterisation. I know that he is not mad or bad...
Speaker | 475 c1613 (Link to this contribution) Order. To some extent, it does, and I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for pointing out that he was...
Richard Bacon | 475 c1613-4 (Link to this contribution) Not only will I do so, but I am nearly finished. I have the reports with me to try to ensure that I ...
Edward Leigh | 475 c1632-4 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Of course, that leads me straight on to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby, who brought us do...
Angela Eagle | 475 c1626 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I would not even attempt to compete with that, even with three hours' notice, and I congratu...
Edward Leigh | 475 c1632 (Link to this contribution) If I may crave your indulgence, Mr. Deputy Speaker, just for three or four minutes, I shall thank al...
Angela Eagle | 475 c1628-32 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will have to think of something more useful to buy his wife for Christmas. The hon. ...
Austin Mitchell | 475 c1628 (Link to this contribution) Bang goes my wife's Christmas present.
Angela Eagle | 475 c1627-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to raise those important issues. We must continue to work on our definit...
John Pugh | 475 c1627 (Link to this contribution) The Government are making appreciable progress in that area, but the remarks of the hon. Member for ...
Angela Eagle | 475 c1627 (Link to this contribution) That is a key point and I hope that the head of the civil service will have noticed it in his regula...
Richard Bacon | 475 c1626-7 (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister moves on from the subject of praising Government Departments and the roll-out of...
Andrew Mackinlay | 475 c1593 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to intervene on the subject of the UK ambassador's residence in Dublin, but as a member o...
Angela Eagle | 475 c1591 (Link to this contribution) May I reassure the hon. Gentleman that thoughts of assassin's knives have never been further from my...
Edward Leigh | 475 c1591-3 (Link to this contribution) That is very reassuring. On these occasions, it is tempting to recite from our canon of reports a li...
Nigel Evans | 475 c1593 (Link to this contribution) Some efficiency savings are hard to calculate. For instance, the closure of some of our embassies or...
Edward Leigh | 475 c1593 (Link to this contribution) Yes. We all have a personal view on our embassies and high commissions. I often think that those his...
Edward Leigh | 475 c1591 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House takes note of the 41st and the 42nd and the 46th to the 65th Reports ...

Subjects

Public expenditure
Parliamentary scrutiny
Select committees
Committee of Public Accounts

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