Sentences with phrase «before public accounts committee»

15:15 - Treasury permanent secretary Sir Nicholas Macpherson, before public accounts committee, on: accountability

We are a few hours away now from Tony Clement's appearance before the public accounts committee.

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Tim Houston made the comment while questioning deputy environment minister Frances Martin, who appeared Wednesday before the legislature's public accounts committee.

«The collaboration we saw was some billing and administrative contacts between the two of them, so you'd see similar people show up in each of the accounts,» said Schroepfer, when asked for more detail about what it had found, before declining to say anything else in a public setting on account of ongoing investigations — despite the committee pointing out other witnesses it has heard from have not held back on that front.

There is another MPA assessment due this month, and with the information commissioner demanding the details of the amber - red reports are released, the public accounts committee to debate the details of the stinging National Audit Office report, and a ruling on legal appeals all due for July, the answer for government is simple: get the vote on the paving bill through before any of that happens, whilst trying to con MPs in affected constituencies that if they don't vote for it, the compensation pot will run dry.

Before she was elected as chair of the public accounts committee in 2010, Hodge held a variety of ministerial jobs under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

The chairman of the BBC Trust said criticising the Commons» influential public accounts committee was «the equivalent of swearing in church» - before mounting an uncompromising attack on MPs» report into severance packages at the BBC.

Permanent Secretaries are «accounting officers» for their departments and have to appear regularly before the Public Accounts Committee to account for their departments» performance.

The public accounts committee published its assessment of academy trust finances and the regulations in place to prevent malpractice just before Easter.