Those in favour please show and the against any further points on the district auditor's reports?

Erm, if I could just bring the committee up to date on one or two things that have happened in relation to the district auditor's report.

We will not take the brunt of the district auditor's reduction in surplus places.

The policy was judged illegal by the district auditor, and a surcharge of £27m levied on her in 1996.

For the next two years he was the district auditor in the regional court in Giessen.

It cost £639, expenditure which the district auditor disallowed.

March 29th: The district auditor says this device too would be illegal.

The hard left points out the parallels between colonial district commissioners and the district auditor.

Traditionally, government-appointed district auditors have been responsible for examining most local authority accounts.

It also appointed district auditors and supplied such statistics as might be required by parliament.