PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO
THE REPORT
Session 1997-98
MONDAY 23 MARCH 1998
Members present:
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
| Mr Phil Hope |
| Mr Geraint Davies | Mr Richard Page
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| Ms Maria Eagle | Mr Alan Williams (Chair)
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| Ms Jane Griffiths |
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In the absence of the Chairman, Mr Alan Williams
was called to the Chair.
Mr Bob Le Marechal, CB, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor
General, was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
Mr Jamie Mortimer, Treasury Officer of Accounts,
was further examined.
The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on The
Purchase of the Read Codes and the Management of the NHS Centre
for Coding and Classification was considered (HC 607).
Mr Alan Langlands, Chief Executive, and Mr Frank
Burns, Head of Information Management and Technology, the NHS
Executive; and Dr James Read, Chairman, and Dr David Bird, Commercial
and Legal Director, Computer Aided Medical Systems, were examined
(HC 657-i).
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[Adjourned till Wednesday 25 March at half past Four
o'clock.
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Session 1997-98
WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 1998
Members present:
Mr David Davis, in the Chair
| Mr Alan Campbell | Mr Andrew Love
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| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
| Mr Richard Page |
| Ms Maria Eagle | Mr Alan Williams
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| Ms Jane Griffiths |
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Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General,
was further examined.
The Committee deliberated.
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Draft Report (The Purchase of the Read Codes and
the Management of the NHS Centre for Coding and Classification),
proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.
Ordered, That the draft
Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 7 read and agreed to.
Paragraph 8 postponed.
Paragraphs 9 to 22 read and agreed to.
Paragraphs 23 and 24 read, amended and agreed to.
Paragraphs 25 to 60 read and agreed to.
Postponed paragraph 8 read, amended and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report,
as amended, be the Sixty-second Report of the Committee to the
House.
Ordered, That the Chairman
do make the Report to the House.
Ordered, That the provisions
of Standing Order No. 134 (Select Committees (Reports)) be applied
to the Report.
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[Adjourned till Monday 16 November at half past Four
o'clock.
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