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PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT FINANCE - RECREATING FINANCIAL SCRUTINY
SECOND REPORT OF SESSION 2007-08 - REPORT, TOGETHER WITH FORMAL MINUTES |
| By: |
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee |
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Paperback |
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£11.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0215514602 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780215514608 |
| Publisher: |
TSO |
| Pub. date: |
21 April, 2008 |
| Series: |
HC Session 2007-08, 426 |
| Pages: |
39 |
| Synopsis: |
Parliamentary scrutiny of the Government's finances needs to be improved. The purpose of scrutiny is to make the government's financial decisions transparent, to give those outside Parliament opportunity to comment, to have the opportunity to influence the Government's financial decisions, and to hold the Government, departments and other public bodies to account.The complexity of the Government's financial system is a major problem. There are: departmental budgets determined in spending reviews; estimates; and resource accounts. Complicated reconciliations are needed to relate one to another. The Treasury has started an Alignment Project, which should improve consistency and continuity between these three types of document. Parliament is not receiving the information required for effective scrutiny.Financial reporting to Parliament should: include the information that departmental managers use to monitor performance, rather than just financial control and audit information; enable an overall view of planned expenditure; highlight the information that is significant; relate the information to objectives and to what is achieved by spending the money; identify key risks; use graphs; be provided in good time; use plain English; and, enable an assessment of the quality of financial management.The Committee makes specific proposals based on these principles. Select committees and the House should, together, engage with financial issues before the Government makes decisions. The House should take back the right to debate and vote on individual government programmes or items of expenditure, and more than three days a year (the current allotment) should be made available for this purpose. |
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UK |
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Stationery Office Books |
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Non-returnable |
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