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Highways Agency 'lacks basic facts', say MPs
...bs between different agency areas, the report from the House of Commons public accounts committee said. And MPs said it was "di...or which road worker injury statistics were available was 2006. Committee chairman Edward Leigh MP said...
Treasury quizzed over best practice
...rtments, MPs have claimed.Members of the Commons public accounts committee have praised the leadership o...ears.However, the report from the select committee has questioned whether the Tr...r informed decisions."The next step, the committee has warned, is for the depart...
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Feature: How to survive a select committee
...l than others”, he cautions.Committee clerk of the education commit...s media consultancy Painswick Public Affairs and Media Guidance, woul...t in their questioning to the public accounts committee (PAC).”The PAC is...xplains that the departmental committee will not be interested in the...
More criticism of equality watchdog
...a report published today, the Commons public accounts committee insisted that a permanent...This is not the way that this committee expects public bodies to be run," the report sa...he way this committee expects public bodies to be run, and reinforces...
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...ngs: he’s fascinated by the public sector’s attempts to reform...by the approach taken by the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which conducts its ow...It’s not impossible for the public sector to do that. It doesn’t...that the task of scrutinising public spending at a local level is set...
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...Blair-style targets measuring public sector processes (metaphorical...s and local government select committee on public sector accountability issues....Margaret Hodge, chair of the public accounts committee (PAC). “We’re seeing a f...lso be helpful to give select committees more resources and staff, sa...
...recently elected chair of the public administration select committee, smiles wryly when I menti...in the spotlight now, because public service reform is a key part of...for example, with that of the public accounts committee – because it is po...
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MPs brand chlamydia programme 'wasteful'
The government's £100m chlamydia testing programme has been "inefficient and wasteful", a select committee report has said.The "hands-off approach" of the Department of Health (DH) led to duplication of effort amongst primary care trusts and failed to minimise infection, the chairman of the pub...
Tags: commons public accounts committee, national audit office, health, health priorities
Defence chiefs responsible for equipment spending have been "hiding from reality" and making "calamitous decisions", an MP has claimed.Conservative MP Richard Bacon made the comments yesterday as he criticised the "staggering sums" that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) was spending as a result of de...
Tags: government procurement, future rapid effects system, military aircraft, warships and military ship building, commons public accounts committee