Formal Minutes

Wednesday 7 September 2011

Rt Hon Margaret Hodge, in the Chair

Mr Richard Bacon

Jo Johnson

Dr. Stella Creasy

Austin Mitchell

Matthew Hancock

Ian Swales

Draft Report (The Efficiency and Reform Group's role in improving public sector value for money) proposed by the Chair, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 19 read and agreed to.

Conclusions and recommendations 1 to 6 read and agreed to.

Summary read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Forty-ninth Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Chair make the Report to the House.

Ordered, That embargoed copies of the Report be made available, in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order No. 134.

Written evidence was ordered to be reported to the House for placing in the Library and Parliamentary Archives.

[Adjourned till Monday 12 September at 3.30pm