Procedure - First Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 25 February 2004.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
2 Appropriation
Acts
3 Negative Supplementary
Estimates
4 Period between
presentation and voting of Estimates
5 Minor changes
to Estimate procedure
6 Explanatory
material about Estimates
7 Conclusion
Conclusions and recommendations
Appendices
Appendix 1: Letter from Mr Paul Boateng MP,
Chief Secretary to the Treasury, to Mr Edward Leigh MP, Chairman
of the Committee of Public Accounts, 13 January 2004
Annex A: Parliamentary Supply and the Appropriation
Process: Changes proposed by HM Treasury
Introduction
Moving to two Appropriation Acts per Session
Allowing New or Supplementary Estimates to
reduce voted limits
Conclusion
Appendix: Examples of two Supplementary Estimates
involved in a Machinery of Government change
Annex B: Supply and Appropriation Process:
Response to issues raised by Parliamentary Committees Responses
to the letter of 13 November from the Liaison Committee:
Responses to the further letter, of 24 November,
jointly from the Public Accounts and Treasury Committees:
Appendix: Draft Template for introductory
section of Estimate
Appendix 2: Memorandum by the Clerk Assistant,
House of Commons: Changes to Supply Procedure and the Estimates
Executive Summary
Introduction
Part 1: An account of supply procedure
Part 2: Frequency of Appropriation Bills
Part 3: Negative Supplementary Estimates
Part 4: Other changes relating to supply
procedure
Part 5: Authorisation and implementation
Table One: The normal sessional timetable
Table Two: The timetable in respect of a
financial year
Annex: Historical background on sessional
appropriation
Appendix 3: Letter from Mr Edward Leigh,
Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, to Mr Paul Boateng,
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Appendix 4: Letter from Mr Alan Williams,
Chairman of the Liaison Committee, to Mr Paul Boateng, Chief Secretary
to the Treasury
Formal minutes
Reports from the Procedure Committee since
2001
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