Parliamentary proceeding on Thursday, 26 January 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Edward Leigh. The answering member was John Healey.

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Debate on a motion to take note of the 17th and 20th to the 52nd reports of the Public Accounts Committee of session 2003/04, the 1st to the 30th reports for 2004/05, and the 1st to the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th and 11th reports for 2005/06, with Treasury Minutes and memoranda on these reports.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 441 c1590-638
Session: 2005-06
Department: Treasury
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Related items: Treasury minutes on the twenty ninth and thirtieth reports from the Committee of Public Accounts session 2003/04. (HC 626 and HC 463).
Wednesday, 8 September 2004
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House of Commons; Treasury minutes on the twenty third, twenty fourth, twenty sixth, twenty eighth and thirty first reports from the Committee of Public Accounts session 2003/04. (HC 65, HC 138, HC 255, HC 336 and HC 502).
Wednesday, 8 September 2004
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House of Commons; Northern Ireland Department of Finance and Personnel memorandum on the twenty-first report from the Public Accounts Committee, session 2003/04. (HC 559).
Tuesday, 20 July 2004
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House of Commons; Treasury minutes on the thirty second to thirty fourth and thirty sixth reports from the Committee of Public Accounts session 2003/04. (HC 284, HC 430, HC 408, and HC 512).
Wednesday, 15 September 2004
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House of Commons; Treasury minutes on the seventeenth and twentieth reports from the Public Accounts Committee, session 2003/04. (HC 40 and 551).
Wednesday, 14 July 2004
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House of Commons
Proceeding contributions: John Healey | 441 c1634-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and his colleagues on the Public Accounts Committee may want to look at the quest...; Greg Clark | 441 c1634 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. He is right that more money is being spent on the NHS,...; John Healey | 441 c1634 (Link to this contribution) I am reluctant to give way to the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning). He has been in the...; Edward Leigh | 441 c1636-8 (Link to this contribution) With your permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall say a few words to sum up. May I thank everyone wh...; Maria Miller | 441 c1622-5 (Link to this contribution) Before I contribute to this important debate, I wish to bring to the attention of the House that a l...; Helen Goodman | 441 c1617 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s point is interesting but issues concerning the hospital in his constituency pro...; Greg Clark | 441 c1616-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to have caught your eye. Like the hon. Member...; Edward Leigh | 441 c1618 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. I just want to put it on the record, in regard to the point m...; Greg Clark | 441 c1617-8 (Link to this contribution) Let me describe those consequences. As the hon. Lady knows, we are a value-for-money Committee: we s...; Baroness Ussher | 441 c1619 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark). He has a consistently r...; Greg Clark | 441 c1618-9 (Link to this contribution) This is a useful power, but there is a disappointing aspect. We know that the information is availab...; Speaker | 441 c1619 (Link to this contribution) Order. I do not think that on this occasion we should expose what might be the substance of the spee...; Richard Bacon | 441 c1619 (Link to this contribution) I am fascinated to learn that the hon. Lady is to present a ten-minute Bill. Might she find time dur...; David Heath | 441 c1634 (Link to this contribution) I do not dispute what the Minister has just said, but he must realise that there are a number of hos...; John Healey | 441 c1630-4 (Link to this contribution) We have had a very good debate this afternoon, led by the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh), ...; Theresa Villiers | 441 c1627-30 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and my hon. Friend makes the point very well. It is particularly important that Government ...; John Healey | 441 c1634 (Link to this contribution) The task is not impossible, because the vast majority of our NHS organisations are succeeding. What ...; Speaker | 441 c1634 (Link to this contribution) Order. First, that was not a point of order. Secondly, it is necessary to allow the Minister to resp...; Mike Penning | 441 c1634 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.; Theresa Villiers | 441 c1625-7 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that my first speech at the Dispatch Box concerns the hugely valuable work of the Pub...; Helen Goodman | 441 c1605-6 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that there is a lot in what my hon. Friend says, although since I have not yet been in tha...; Lord Khan of Tooting | 441 c1605 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that, by the time the report of the PAC is eventually published, those who...; Helen Goodman | 441 c1606-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. With regard to specific issues, what she says...; Baroness Ussher | 441 c1606 (Link to this contribution) I agree with what my hon. Friend says and it mirrors my experience as a new Member. Does she agree t...; Richard Bacon | 441 c1604 (Link to this contribution) On tax credits, we are familiar with the fact that the accounts of the European Union and the Depart...; David Heath | 441 c1603-4 (Link to this contribution) That is right, and the Committee should not be used for party political purposes. Every Member wants...; Helen Goodman | 441 c1605 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that it will not surprise hon. Members to hear that I was rather a swot at school. I alway...; David Heath | 441 c1604-5 (Link to this contribution) I think that it is. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, as it now is, should be beyond reproach in th...; Edward Leigh | 441 c1603 (Link to this contribution) On the key aspects, this is the only publicity—we are not supposed to mention this—directed at civil...; David Heath | 441 c1602-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Dagenham (Jon Cruddas), who is right to point t...; Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 441 c1613-5 (Link to this contribution) I was not there 15 years ago, so I do not know what it was like then. Recently in The House Magazine...; Edward Leigh | 441 c1613 (Link to this contribution) I just wanted to put on the record that since I have been running the Committee, we have tried to st...; Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 441 c1612-3 (Link to this contribution) Like other hon. Members, I wish to pay tribute to the Committee administration. Nick Wright and his ...; Richard Bacon | 441 c1611-2 (Link to this contribution) We find ourselves spending more later on in spades, and wastefully. In the recent exercise with St. ...; Helen Goodman | 441 c1611 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that part of the issue is not the overall cost but the point at which ...; Richard Bacon | 441 c1608-11 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady was a deputy scribbler, perhaps. Like the hon. Lady, I want to pay tribute to Nick Wr...; Richard Bacon | 441 c1608 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman), who provided t...; Helen Goodman | 441 c1607-8 (Link to this contribution) I had not noticed that. While I started off by believing that a consensual approach was appropriate,...; Baroness Ussher | 441 c1607 (Link to this contribution) Did my hon. Friend notice the comments of the newest member of the PAC in this week’s The House Maga...; Iain Duncan Smith | 441 c1596-7 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I do not usually raise points of order, and this has nothin...; Speaker | 441 c1597 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of any request from the Government to make a statement on the matter. Equally, the Ch...; Jon Cruddas | 441 c1597-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to say a few words about my experience as a member of the Public Accounts Committee, although...; John Hayes | 441 c1599-600 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about migration being a key factor in housing demand, and con...; Edward Leigh | 441 c1592-6 (Link to this contribution) That is the media’s besetting sin, but we try to structure our reports and press releases so as to s...; Jon Cruddas | 441 c1602 (Link to this contribution) It seems to me that that argument always rests on the assumption that there are sufficient economic ...; Jon Cruddas | 441 c1600-1 (Link to this contribution) The purpose of my rather protracted walk through these statistics is to come to the issue of public ...; Baroness Ussher | 441 c1601 (Link to this contribution) I believe that my constituency contains more BNP councillors than any other constituency in the coun...; Jon Cruddas | 441 c1601 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to be too definitive in identifying the turning points that create such phenomena. I m...; John Hayes | 441 c1601-2 (Link to this contribution) I am reluctant to interrupt the hon. Gentleman’s fascinating account of his local experiences a seco...; Edward Leigh | 441 c1591 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my very distinguished predecessor as PAC Chairman achieved just as high a rate. He ha...; Lord Khan of Tooting | 441 c1592 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman concerned that the media sometimes highlight our criticism of the Government, ...; Ian Davidson | 441 c1590-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that 93 per cent. of the Committee’s recommendations had been accepted. For ...; Baroness Ussher | 441 c1619-22 (Link to this contribution) I will, of course, follow your advice, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and not ruin the suspense for—I am sure—m...; Edward Leigh | 441 c1590 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House takes note of the 17th and the 20th to the 52nd Reports of the Commit...; Richard Bacon | 441 c1627 (Link to this contribution) I had a conversation with the former Minister—I shall not embarrass him by naming him—who was respon...; Helen Goodman | 441 c1608 (Link to this contribution) I should point out that I was not a scribbler; I was the original teenage kid.
Subjects: Accountability Government departments Public expenditure Parliamentary scrutiny Committee of Public Accounts Government responses
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