A LONG-AWAITED House of Commons scrutiny report into the Teesside Development Corporation (TDC) will be published tomorrow.

The Public Accounts Committee is likely to highlight several hard-hitting recommendations in the light of the National Audit Office (NAO) report into the corporation in February.

The damning report contained examples of multi-million pound deals going ahead without official sanction and rule-breaking, which left losses of up to £40m.

Later, documents relating to marketing and developers' contracts could not be found by investigators.

The NAO, Parliament's independent financial watchdog, got involved after furious MPs from the North-East demanded an investigation into the development agency.

In November 2000, Cleveland Police closed an investigation after finding no evidence of criminal offences involving the TDC.

But the MPs have said they will not rest until the workings of the development agency have been held to account.

TDC former chief executive Duncan Hall, and the Department of Environment's top civil servant, Sir Richard Mottram, gave evidence at the accounts committee hearing.

Mr Hall said any mistakes had to be put in context with the 12,000 jobs created and millions of pounds in investment.

Examples of regeneration included Hartlepool Marina and Middlesbrough Football Club's Riverside Stadium.