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Public Accounts

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman), who provided the House with a penetrating analysis of the Committee’s work, and of some of the issues and problems with which it has to deal. I agree with a great deal of what she said. She certainly does not sound like a new member of the Committee, but of course, she was a Treasury official for a while. We also know—I am not sure that she knows that we know—that she was the original teenage scribbler. She has now been promoted from scribbling to offering penetrating analysis, and we welcome her and the other new members of the Committee to their positions.