Sentences with phrase «public accounts committee pointed»

As parliament's public accounts committee pointed out in January 2015: «The DfE [Department for Education] presides over a complex and confused system of external oversight.»

Not exact matches

«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.

However, Unions highlighted reports from MPs on the cross-party education select committee and the public accounts committee, both published last week, which criticised the academies and free schools programme and pointed to the lack of evidence that it was leading to improved standards.

The public accounts committee in 2016 said the criminal justice system was at breaking point.