Sentences with phrase «parliamentary public accounts committee»

Meg Hillier, the Labour MP who chairs the parliamentary public accounts committee, accused the government of «choosing to open new free schools in areas which do not need them and are failing to fill places».

The chair of the parliamentary public accounts committee Meg Hillier has spoken out against costly private finance initiative contracts and warned that the scheme's relaunch as PF2 is little more than a rebrand.

The chair of the parliamentary public accounts committee Meg Hillier has spoken out against costly private finance initiative contracts and warned that the scheme's relaunch as PF2 is...

Meg Hillier, the chair of the parliamentary public accounts committee, has written to Jonathan Slater, the DfE's permanent secretary, demanding an update on several government cost - saving initiatives.

The parliamentary public accounts committee will grill officials from the Department for Education on whether converting schools to academies delivers «the right results» for pupils and taxpayers.

Slater told the parliamentary public accounts committee this afternoon that the government had learned that the amount offered to teachers had not been enough of an incentive, and that where teachers did apply, some schools were reluctant to take them on.

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«What has happened has happened and there is that parliamentary process with the public accounts committee and the various investigations by respective agencies.

Stephen Williams, chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Treasury Committee, comments on the public accounts committee (PAC) report into corporate tax aCommittee, comments on the public accounts committee (PAC) report into corporate tax acommittee (PAC) report into corporate tax avoidance:

After holding ministerial office, he became a member of the ecclesiastical and the public accounts parliamentary select committees.

But it also made clear that HMRC could disclose information to parliamentary bodies with an oversight role, such as the public accounts committee.