Taken before the Committee of Public Accounts
on Monday 15 March 2004
Members present:
Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair
Mr Richard Bacon |
| MrBrian Jenkins |
Mr Frank Field |
| Jon Trickett |
Sir John Bourn KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, and Ms Aileen Murphie, National Audit Office, further examined.
Mr Brian Glicksman, Treasury Officer of Accounts, HM Treasury, further examined.
REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL:
Criminal Records Bureau: Delivering Safer Recruitment? (HC 266)
Witnesses: Mr Leigh Lewis CB, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, Mr Vince Gaskell, Chief Executive, Criminal Records Bureau, Mr Bernard Herdan, former Chief Executive of the Passport and Records Agency (which incorporated the Criminal Records Bureau and the UK Passport Service until the two were split up on 1 September 2003), and Mr Paul Pindar, Chief Executive, Capita Group Plc, examined.