BUDGETS
39. The Government's position is that while payments
to the devolved legislatures will be a matter for the United Kingdom
Parliament, the use the devolved legislatures make of such funds
and the audit of such expenditure will be a matter for them. The
Government has suggested "that NAO, NIAO and PAC reports
made after devolution, but relating to events before devolution,
should be copied to the devolved legislatures".[68]
This is a matter for the Committee of Public Accounts, but we
stress that, once published, such reports are public documents
and available to the devolved legislatures.
68 HC (1998-99) 148, Appendix 1, paragraph 13. Back
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