Committee of Public Accounts
The Committee of Public
Accounts is appointed by the House of Commons to
examine "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" (Standing Order No 148).
Current membership
Rt Hon Margaret Hodge
(Labour, Barking)
(Chair)
Mr Richard Bacon (Conservative,
South Norfolk)
Mr Stephen Barclay (Conservative,
North East Cambridgeshire)
Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative,
Thurrock)
Matthew Hancock (Conservative,
West Suffolk)
Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative,
Daventry)
Meg Hillier (Labour,
Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Mr Stewart Jackson (Conservative,
Peterborough)
Sajid Javid (Conservative,
Bromsgrove)
Fiona Mactaggart (Labour,
Slough)
Mr Austin Mitchell (Labour,
Great Grimsby)
Nick Smith (Labour,
Blaenau Gwent)
Ian Swales (Liberal
Democrats, Redcar)
James Wharton (Conservative,
Stockton South)
The following Members
were also Members of the committee during the
parliament:
Dr Stella Creasy (Labour/Cooperative,
Walthamstow)
Justine Greening (Conservative,
Putney)
Joseph Johnson (Conservative,
Orpington)
Eric Joyce (Labour,
Falkirk)
Rt Hon Mrs Anne McGuire
(Labour, Stirling)
Chloe Smith (Conservative,
Norwich North)
Powers
The committee is one of
the departmental select committees, the powers of
which are set out in House
of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No
152. These are available
on the internet via www.parliament.uk.
Publications
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/pac. A list of Reports of the
Committee in the present
Parliament is at the back of this volume.
Additional written evidence
may be published on the internet only.
Committee staff
The current staff of the
Committee is Adrian Jenner (Clerk), Sonia Draper
(Senior Committee Assistant),
Ian Blair and James McQuade (Committee
Assistants) and Alex Paterson
(Media Officer).
Contacts
All correspondence should
be addressed to the Clerk, Committee of Public
Accounts, House of Commons,
7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone
number for general enquiries
is 020 7219 5708; the Committee's email address is
pubaccom@parliament.uk
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