Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom)
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The Committee of Public Accounts is a
Overview
The recommendation for the creation of a committee to oversee government accounts was first put forward in 1857 by a small group of interested Members of Parliament led by Sir
There shall be a standing committee designated "The Committee of Public Accounts"; for the examination of the Accounts showing the appropriation of sums granted by Parliament to meet the Public Expenditure, to consist of nine members, who shall be nominated at the commencement of every Session, and of whom five shall be a quorum.[2]
The form has since been replicated in virtually all
The
Membership
The Committee's members as of December 2023 are as follows:[4][5][6][7][8][9] [10]
Member | Party | Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|
Dame Meg Hillier DBE MP (Chair) | Labour and Co-operative Party
|
Hackney South and Shoreditch | |
Gary Sambrook MP | Conservative Party | Birmingham Northfield | |
Dan Carden MP | Labour Party | Liverpool Walton | |
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP | Conservative Party | The Cotswolds | |
Mark Francois MP | Conservative Party | Rayleigh and Wickford | |
Ben Lake MP | Plaid Cymru | Ceredigion | |
Olivia Blake MP | Labour Party | Sheffield Hallam | |
Jonathan Djanogly MP | Conservative Party | Huntingdon | |
Sir Jeremy Quin MP | Conservative Party | Horsham | |
Flick Drummond MP | Conservative Party | Meon Valley | |
Sarah Olney MP | Liberal Democrats | Richmond Park | |
Sarah Owen MP | Labour Party | Luton North | |
Anne Marie Morris MP | Conservative Party | Newton Abbot | |
Paula Barker MP | Labour Party | Liverpool Wavertree | |
Gareth Davies MP | Conservative Party | Grantham and Stamford | |
Peter Grant MP | Scottish National Party | Glenrothes |
Changes since 2019
2017-2019 Parliament
The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with members being announced on 11 September 2017.[11][12]
Member | Party | Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|
Meg Hillier MP (Chair) | Labour and Co-op
|
Hackney South and Shoreditch | |
Bim Afolami MP | Conservative | Hitchin and Harpenden | |
Heidi Allen MP | Conservative | South Cambridgeshire | |
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP | Conservative | The Cotswolds | |
Martyn Day MP | SNP | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | |
Chris Evans MP | Labour and Co-op
|
Islwyn | |
Caroline Flint MP | Labour | Don Valley | |
Luke Graham MP | Conservative | Ochil and South Perthshire | |
Andrew Jones MP | Conservative | Harrogate and Knaresborough | |
Gillian Keegan MP | Conservative | Chichester | |
Shabana Mahmood MP | Labour | Birmingham Ladywood | |
Nigel Mills MP | Conservative | Amber Valley | |
Layla Moran MP | Liberal Democrats | Oxford West and Abingdon | |
Bridget Phillipson MP | Labour | Houghton and Sunderland South | |
Gareth Snell MP | Labour and Co-op
|
Stoke-on-Trent Central |
Changes 2017-2019
2015-2017 Parliament
The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 7 July 2015.[14][15]
Changes 2015-2017
2010-2015 Parliament
The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 12 July 2010.[17][18]
Member | Party | Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|
Margaret Hodge MP (Chair) | Labour | Barking | |
Richard Bacon MP | Conservative | South Norfolk | |
Steve Barclay MP
|
Conservative | North East Cambridgeshire | |
Jackie Doyle-Price MP | Conservative | Thurrock | |
Justine Greening MP | Conservative | Putney | |
Matt Hancock MP | Conservative | West Suffolk | |
Chris Heaton-Harris MP | Conservative | Daventry | |
Jo Johnson MP | Conservative | Orpington | |
Eric Joyce MP | Labour | Falkirk | |
Anne McGuire MP | Labour | Stirling | |
Austin Mitchell MP | Labour | Great Grimsby | |
Nick Smith MP | Labour | Blaenau Gwent | |
Ian Swales MP | Liberal Democrats | Redcar | |
James Wharton MP | Conservative | Stockton South |
Changes 2010-2015
Chairs (1861–present)
House of Commons standing orders give the party of the
See also
- List of Committees of the United Kingdom Parliament
References
- ^ "Holding Government to Account: 150 years of the Committee of Public Accounts" (PDF). UK Parliament. 2007.
- ^ "Public Accounts—Committee Moved For". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 166. House of Commons. 31 March 1862. col. 329–330.
- ^ National Audit Office History of the National Audit Office, Accessed 25 September 2012
- ^ "Public Accounts Committee - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament". committees.parliament.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
- ^ "Public Accounts Committee Volume 720: debated on Monday 17 October 2022". hansard.parliament.ukv. UK Hansard. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
That Helen Whately be discharged from the Public Accounts Committee and Felicity Buchan be added.
v - ^ "Committees Volume 723: debated on Tuesday 29 November 2022". hansard.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 29 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
That James Wild be discharged from the Committee of Public Accounts.
- ^ "Business without Debate Volume 733: debated on Tuesday 6 June 2023". hansard.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 6 June 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
That James Cartlidge be discharged from the Committee of Public Accounts and Gareth Davies be added
- ^ "Public Accounts Volume 735: debated on Monday 26 June 2023". hansard.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 26 June 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
That Mr Louie French be discharged from the Committee of Public Accounts and Ben Lake be added.—(Sir Bill Wiggin, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
- ^ "Business without Debate Volume 742: debated on Monday 11 December 2023". hansard.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 11 December 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
Public Accounts
- ^ "Business without Debate Volume 742: debated on Monday 18 December 2023". hansard.parliament.uk/. UK Hansard. 18 December 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
That Sir Simon Clarke be discharged from the Committee of Public Accounts and Gary Sambrook be added.
- ^ "Speaker's Statement: Select Committee Chairs". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 627. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 12 July 2017.
- ^ "Public Accounts". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 628. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 11 September 2017.
- ^ "MP Chris Davies unseated after petition triggers by-election". BBC News. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ "Speaker's Statement". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 597. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 18 June 2015.
- ^ "Public Accounts". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 598. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 7 July 2015.
- ^ "Tory MP Stephen Phillips quits over 'irreconcilable differences'". BBC News. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ "Speaker's Statement". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 511. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 10 June 2010.
- ^ "Committees". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 513. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 12 July 2010.
- ^ Standing Order 122B(8)(f)
Further reading
- David McGee, The Overseers – Public Accounts Committees and Public Spending, Pluto Press, London 2002.
- Stapenhurst, Rick; Sahgal, Vinod; Woodley, William; Pelizzo, Riccardo; World Bank, 1 May 2005, Policy Research Working Paper WPS3613, Scrutinizing public expenditures: assessing the performance of public accounts committees
- Pelizzo, Riccardo, Stapenhurst, Rick, Saghal, Vinod and William Woodley, What Makes Public Accounts Committees Work?, Politics and Policy, vol. 34, n. 4, December 2006. pp. 774–793.
- Riccardo Pelizzo and Rick Stapenhurst, Strengthening Public Accounts Committees by Targeting Regional and Country Specific Weaknesses, in Anwar Shah (ed.), Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption, Washington DC, The World Bank, 2007, pp. 379–393.
- Jacobs, K. 1997. ‘A reforming accountability’, International Journal of Health Planning and Management 12: 169–85.
- Jacobs, K.1998. ‘Value for money auditing in New Zealand: competing for control in the public sector’, British Accounting Review 30: 343–360
- Jones, C. 1987. ‘The Origins of the Victorian Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee’, MA, University of Melbourne.