Committee of Public Accounts
The Committee of Public Accounts is appointed under
Standing Order No. 148 to examine on behalf of the House of Commons
"the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted
by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, and of such other
accounts laid before Parliament as the committee may think fit,
to consist of not more than fifteen Members, of whom four shall
be a quorum. The Committee shall have the power to send for persons,
papers and records, to report from time to time, and to adjourn
from place to place.".
This Parliament's Committee was nominated on 25 July
1997 and on 28 October that year its membership was increased
to 16. The Committee's Members are nominated by the House and
continue to be Members of the Committee for the remainder of the
Parliament unless the House orders otherwise. For ease of identification
names followed by an asterisk represent current Members of the
Committee of Public Accounts. Members nominated to the Committee
in this Parliament are as follows:
Rt Hon David Davis* (Conservative,
Haltemprice and Howden) (elected Chairman 30.07.97)
Mr Simon Burns* (Conservative, Chelmsford West) (added
07.11.00)
Mr Alan Campbell* (Labour, Tynemouth)
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative, Cotswold) (discharged
02.07.99)
Rt Hon David Curry (Conservative, Skipton and Ripon) (added
02.07.99) (discharged 07.11.00)
Mr Ian Davidson* (Labour, Glasgow Pollok)
Mr Geraint Davies* (Labour, Croydon Central)
Ms Maria Eagle (Labour, Liverpool Garston) (discharged
29.11.99)
Mr David Faber* (Conservative, Westbury) (added
07.11.00)
Mr Barry Gardiner* (Labour, Brent North) (added 10.06.99)
Ms Jane Griffiths (Labour, Reading East) (discharged,
21.10.99)
Mr Nigel Griffiths* (Labour, Edinburgh South) (added
29.11.99)
Mr Phil Hope (Labour, Corby) (discharged 05.11.98)
Mr Edward Leigh* (Conservative, Gainsborough) (added
14.04.2000)
Mr Christopher Leslie (Labour, Shipley) (discharged
05.11.98)
Mr Andrew Love* (Labour, Edmonton)
Rt Hon Robert Maclennan (Lib Dem, Caithness, Sutherland and
Easter Ross) (discharged 03.11.99)
Mr Jim Murphy* (Labour, Eastwood) (added 29.11.99)
Mr Richard Page (Conservative, Hertfordshire South West)
(discharged 14.04.2000)
Ms Dawn Primarolo (Labour, Bristol South) (added 30.10.97)
(discharged 12.01.99)
Mr David Rendel* (Lib Dem, Newbury) (added 03.11.99)
Mrs Barbara Roche (Labour, Hornsey and Wood Green) (added
12.01.99) (discharged 03.11.99)
Mr Gerry Steinberg* (Labour, City of Durham) (added
05.11.98)
Mr Stephen Timms* (Labour, East Ham) (added 03.11.99)
Mr Derek Twigg (Labour, Halton) (added 17.11.98)
(discharged 10.06.99)
Mr Stephen Twigg (Labour, Enfield Southgate) (added
05.11.98) (discharged 17.11.98)
Mr Charles Wardle (Conservative, Bexhill and Battle) (discharged
07.11.00)
Rt Hon Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru, Caernarfon) (discharged
16.12.97)
Rt Hon Alan Williams* (Labour, Swansea West)
The Committee has the power to require the submission
of written evidence and documents, to examine witnesses, and to
make Reports to the House. The Committee may not arrange to meet
at any time when the House is adjourned, prorogued or dissolved.
It has power to meet at any place in the United Kingdom and may
also travel abroad.
The Committee may meet concurrently with the European
Scrutiny Committee or any of its sub-committees for the purpose
of deliberation or taking evidence. It may receive documents from
that Committee or from any Committee established under Standing
Order No. 152 and may make available to those Committees evidence
received from the National Audit Office which has not been reported
to the House.
The reports and evidence of the Committee are published
by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications
of the Committee (including press notices) are on the internet
at www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/pachome.htm
All correspondence should be addressed to The Clerk
of the Committee of Public Accounts, Committee Office, House of
Commons, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general inquiries
is: 020-7219-5708. The Committee's e-mail address is: pubaccom@parliament.uk
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