Proceeding contribution from Richard Bacon (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 23 October 2007. It occurred during Debate on Public Accounts.
Public Accounts
I am interested in what evidence the hon. Gentleman has for his assertion that presiding over a disaster is career-limiting. After all, the permanent secretary at the Home Office, Sir John Gieve, presided over such a mess that its accounts were presented to Parliament unaudited. His punishment for that was to be promoted to be deputy governor of the Bank of England in charge of financial stability in the banking system, which of course was to the fore when we had the Northern Rock fiasco. That is the sort of thing that we might expect to find in Gilbert and Sullivan, but not necessarily in real life.
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