Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — Public Accounts Commission: National Audit Office Staff 24 Feb 1997

  The National Audit Office audits the majority of expenditure in the United Kingdom that is funded from the European Community budget. That work is done as part of the Comptroller and Auditor General's responsibility to audit the appropriation accounts of the 10 UK Departments and agencies through which most of those funds pass. It is not possible to identify separately the staff effort...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Public Accounts Commission: National Audit Office Staff 24 Feb 1997

  As my hon. Friend well knows, the Comptroller and Auditor General does not have powers to examine expenditure under European schemes in other EU countries. He may be interested to note that the Comptroller and Auditor General reported to Parliament last week on the report, "The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Common Agriculture Policy: Fraud and Irregularity", which examined...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Public Accounts Commission: National Audit Office Staff 24 Feb 1997

  The report was concerned with fraud and irregularity rather than the overall position, but I am sure that if the hon. Gentleman were to study it in detail he would see that it gives a broad perspective on that particular aspect of the common agricultural policy, which concerns many hon. Members.

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Former MP for Worthing

Entered the House of Commons on 15 October 1964 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 8 April 1997 — General election

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Previous MPs in this constituency

• Otho Prior-Palmer