division_name: Financial Crisis &#8212; Financial Management
motion: <p class="" pid="c.654.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.654.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House takes note of an unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum from HM Treasury dated <phrase class="date" code="2008-12-04">4 December 2008</phrase>, European Court of Auditors 2007 Annual Report, an unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum from the Department for International Development dated <phrase class="date" code="2009-01-08">8 January 2009</phrase>, European Court of Auditors Annual Report on the activities funded by the seventh, eighth and ninth European Development Funds, European Union Documents No. 12156/08 and Addenda 1 and 2: Protection of the financial interests of the Communities: Fight against fraud, No. 12471/08 and Addendum 1: Annual report to the discharge authority on internal audits carried out in 2007, and No. 12472/08: Report on the progress at <phrase class="date" code="2008-03-31">31 March 2008</phrase> on the modernisation of the accounting system, an unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum from HM Treasury dated <phrase class="date" code="2008-10-16">16 October 2008</phrase>, European Anti-Fraud Office: eighth activity report for the period <phrase class="date" code="2009-01-01">1 January</phrase> to <phrase class="date" code="2007-12-31">31 December 2007</phrase>, and European Union Documents No. 14480/08 and Addendum 1: Commission Report to the Council on the follow-up to 2006 Discharge Decisions (Summary)&#8212;Council recommendations, and No. 14481/08 and Addendum 1: Commission Report to the European Parliament on the follow-up to 2006 Discharge Decisions (Summary)&#8212;European Parliament Resolutions; and supports the Government's promotion of measures to improve the level of assurance given on the Community budget.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="c.674.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes"> Question put.</p>
  
  <p pid="c.674.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 287, Noes 213.</p>