5 Minor changes to Estimate procedure
22. In his paper, the Clerk Assistant proposes some
changes to the content of the motions by which the House agrees
to the Estimates. The most important of these is that the motions
approving Estimates should, as well as referring to the resources
and cash totals to be approved, also approve the limits on appropriations
in aid set out in the Estimates. These totals have, since their
invention in 1891, been set out in Appropriation Acts, and this
practice has been given statutory recognition in the Government
Resources and Accounts Act 2000. The Clerk Assistant's paper also
proposes revisions of Standing Order No. 55 which might be made
at the same time as the substantive change we have supported in
paragraph 19 is implemented; these revisions reflect the introduction
of Resource Accounting and the proposal to refer to limits on
appropriations in aid in Estimates motions.[21]
We agree with these proposals relating to the content of Estimates
motions and the revision of Standing Order No. 55.
21 Appendix 2, p 49-50. Back
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