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Debating departmental objectives and annual Reports : Second report of session 2007-08, report, together with formal minutes and written Evidence
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780215515001
Debating departmental objectives and annual Reports : Second report of session 2007-08, report, together with formal minutes and written Evidence
Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher :
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 1975
Category : New Zealand
ISBN :
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Liaison Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780215514608
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 which 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 as 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.
Author : United States. Dept. of Labor
Publisher :
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Employees
ISBN :
Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : Australia. Department of Transport and Communications
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN :
Author : Venda (South Africa)
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Executive departments
ISBN :
Author : Michael Rush
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Contributors to this Hansard Society/Palgrave volume consider how British government and politics changed as Tony Blair gave way to Gordon Brown. Gordon at the Helm looks at a range of factors under Brown such as public opinion, party and opposition politics, British government and administration, public policy, local government and foreign policy.
Author :
Publisher : Combat Poverty Agency
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher :
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 1927
Category : New Zealand
ISBN :