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Session 2007-08 Publications on the internet Public Accounts Committee Publications

Public Accounts - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report] Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 December 2007. Oral evidence Taken before the Committee of Public Accounts on Monday 11 June 2007 Members present: Mr Edward Leigh, was in the Chair Mr Austin Mitchell Mr David Curry Dr John Pugh Mr Philip Dunne Mr Alan Williams Ian Lucas CONTENTS Sir John Bourn KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, Tim Burr, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General and Chris Shapcott, Director, Health Value for Money Audit, National Audit Office, were in attendance and gave oral evidence. Paula Diggle, Treasury Officer of Accounts, was in attendance. REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL Prescribing Costs in Primary Care (HC 454) Witnesses: David Nicholson CBE, Chief Executive, National Health Service, Professor David Colin-Thomé, National Clinical Director for Primary Care, and Dr Felicity Harvey, Head of Medicines, Pharmacy and Industry Group, Department of Health, gave evidence. Question Numbers: 1-19 20-39 40-59 60-79 80-94 Memorandum submitted by the American Pharmaceutical Group Memorandum submitted by Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD) Memorandum submitted by Sanofi-Aventis & Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Ltd Further memorandum submitted by Sanofi-Aventis & Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Ltd Memornadum submitted by W A Smith

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