Sentences with phrase «public accounts committee makes»

A report published today by the Commons» public accounts committee makes the claim as it analyses the # 8 billion spent every year by the NHS on prescription drugs.

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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.

Officials were forced to abandon the competition for the franchise after making «fundamental errors», the Commons» public accounts committee (PAC) concluded last week.

She also enthuses about hauling up outsourcing firms such as Serco, Capita and G4S to make their case to the committee: «In the past no - one had ordered a private company to give evidence to the public accounts committee, they'd always done it through the permanent secretary.

A public accounts committee report into asylum housing found the contracts given to Serco and G4S to provide it had saved little money, failed to improve the service and in fact made it considerable more insecure.

The public accounts committee report paints a picture of a benefit decision - making system which collapsed into chaos, with Atos taking up to eight months to decide about people's entitlement for personal independence payments (PIP).

Edward Leigh, chairman of the public accounts committee, said: «Lot of businesses, especially smaller ones, are yet to be convinced that improving their energy efficiency makes commercial sense.

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

In May 2016, a report by the House of Commons public accounts committee criticised Hunt's plan for a seven - day NHS, saying «no coherent attempt» had made to understand staffing needs, the plan was «completely uncosted», and contained «serious flaws».

The letter comes as Meg Hillier, chair of the public accounts committee, said on Wednesday the government was under a «collective delusion» about the further savings schools were expected to make.