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Highways Agency 'lacks basic facts', say MPs
...worker injury statistics were available was 2006. Committee chairman Edward Leigh MP said road maintenance work...ties, such as resurfacing, it cannot hope to drive those costs down," Leigh said. He added: "The agency m...
Treasury quizzed over best practice
...investigation by the National Audit Office (NAO). Committee chairman Edward Leigh said - during an evidence hea...ce-chairman Alistair Johnson.As the report was published on Thursday, Leigh said: "The benefits have been...
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NAO slams government tinkering
...nse before such costs are incurred, and would also like to see a slowdown in the rate of change," Morse added. Public accounts committee chair Edward Leigh said: “Designers of logos a...
...nance is some £170m to £410m." Public accounts committee chairman, Edward Leigh strongly criticised the DfT a...nt had ignored warnings from the NAO over management of the scheme. Leigh added: "The department's assu...
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45 years in a rough, tough business
...urable: “At least he stabbed her in the front,” commented Tory MP Edward Leigh.Brought back into government b...ock, Devon1970 Made a junior transport minister by Edward Heath, then an environment m...
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...ce remains on that wall for just one more: her immediate predecessor, Edward Leigh. “I’ll go over there,”...money. Was it wrong to try it? I agree with [DWP permanent secretary] Leigh Lewis on this one: no, it was...
Third of MoD housing stock rated 'poor'
...hin the top two of its condition categories, but the second of these two categories encompasses a lot of variation in property condition," said Edward Leigh, chairman of the public accou...
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Highways Agency 'lacks basic facts', say MPs
Highways Agency 'lacks basic facts', say MPsThe Highways Agency 'lacks basic facts about what it gets in return for taxpayers' money', MPs sayThe Highways Agency "lacks basic facts about what it gets in return for taxpayers' money", a report from MPs said today. There was a wide va...
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Treasury quizzed over best practice
The Treasury is not doing enough to spread the good practice shown by some departments, MPs have claimedThe Treasury is not doing enough to spread the good practice shown by some departments, MPs have claimed.Members of the Commons public accounts committee have praised the leadership of the Fore...
Tags: edward leigh, financial management and analysis, National Audit Office, commons public accounts committee, Foreign and Commonwealth Office