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Draft Local Audit Bill

Pre-legislative Scrutiny, Report of Session 2012-13, Vol. 1: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Draft Local Audit Bill ad Hoc Committee

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Draft Local Audit Bill

Pre-legislative Scrutiny, Report of Session 2012-13, Vol. 1: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Draft Local Audit Bill ad Hoc Committee

Draft legislation intended to deliver a more efficient and transparent local audit system may not save money, potentially undermines the integrity of the audit system and may fail to deliver accountability. The principle of independent audit - which has guided public sector audit for the last 150 years - could be undermined if the bill is not amended. Most witnesses criticised the proposed independent auditor panels and felt that they imposed an unnecessary additional bureaucratic burden. They expressed strong support for the retention of a central procurement capacity for appointing auditors to local bodies in order to deliver best value on audit fees. The legislation also has some gaping holes that pose significant risks. Unless stronger safeguards are put into the legislation, whistleblowers might not be able to draw attention to serious failures in local governance. The Comptroller & Auditor General of the National Audit Office should be named in the Bill alongside the appointed auditor, as another prescribed person who may be contacted by any whistleblower. It should also have a duty to publish detailed mandatory guidance to accompany the code and to report annually to Parliament on the Code's effectiveness. Lastly, there is great concern that the draft Bill makes no provision for comprehensive like for like value for money comparisons which would enable informed judgements about the way local bodies spend taxpayer's money. It is essential that the Bill is re-drafted to include a systematic process for benchmarking and like-for-like comparisons between public bodies in the new regime.

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House of Commons: Sessional Returns - HC 1

9 May 2012 - 25 April 2013

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons

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House of Commons: Sessional Returns - HC 1

9 May 2012 - 25 April 2013

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons

On cover and title page: House, committees of the whole House, general committees and select committees. On title page: Returns to orders of the House of Commons dated 14 May 2013 (the Chairman of Ways and Means)

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Select Committee Effectiveness, Resources and Powers

Second Report of Session 2012-13, Vol. 1: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee

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Select Committee Effectiveness, Resources and Powers

Second Report of Session 2012-13, Vol. 1: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee

Drawing on reports from committees, evidence from outside observers and academic research, this report concludes that two years after the general election and the Wright reforms, the evidence is "broadly encouraging" - although committees face some obstacles and there is room for improvement. The "old doctrine by which ministers alone are accountable to Parliament for the conduct of their department is being stretched to implausibility and there is a need for a changed approach. It recommends that the Government engage with the Liaison Committee in a review of the relationship between Government and select committees with the aim of producing joint guidelines for departments and committees, which recognise ministerial accountability, the proper role of the Civil Service and the legitimate wish of Parliament for more effective accountability. The report also makes numerous recommendations for Committees, including: that they be forward-looking in scrutiny of departmental performance, devoting less effort to raking over the coals of past events unless there are lessons to be learnt; give more attention to the financial implications of departmental policy and how departments assess the effectiveness of their spending; experiment with different approaches to evidence-taking, broaden the range of witnesses, and make more use of commissioned research; follow up recommendations to ensure that reports have impact and report to the House at least once each Session on what has been done The Committee intends to ask the Backbench Business Committee for time for a debate in the House of Commons on a motion endorsing its conclusions and recommendations

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Public Expenditure on Health and Care Services

Eleventh Report of Session 2012-13, Vol. 1: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee

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Public Expenditure on Health and Care Services

Eleventh Report of Session 2012-13, Vol. 1: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee

This report states that the values of the NHS will only be reflected in practice if NHS and social care services are 're-imagined'. The care provided by the health and social care system will break down if quicker progress is not made to develop more integrated health and social care services which focus on meeting the needs of individual patients. It is unlikely that public expenditure on health and social care services will increase significantly in the foreseeable future. This means that the only way to sustain or improve present service levels in the NHS will be to focus on a transformation of care through genuine and sustained service integration. There must be a much more joined up approach to commissioning health and care services. On other issues the Health Committee also concludes: measures currently being used to respond to the Nicholson Challenge too often represent short-term fixes rather than the sustainable long-term service transformations; changes in tariff payments within the NHS do not constitute ’efficiency savings' - they are simply internal transfers; under-spending against budget of money allocated to the NHS has attracted adverse comment and the MPs call for a general review of the operation of Treasury rules; the NHS will not be able to rely on the present rate of paybill savings once the present restraints on public sector pay are relaxed in April 2013

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Embedding sustainable development across Government, after the Secretary of State's announcement on the future of the Sustainable Development Commission

first report of session 2010-11, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee

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Embedding sustainable development across Government, after the Secretary of State's announcement on the future of the Sustainable Development Commission

first report of session 2010-11, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee

Funding of the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) will cease at the end of March 2011, and Defra's capability and presence to improve the sustainability of Government will be increased. Whilst regretting the Government's decision to stop funding the SDC, the Committee sees an opportunity to reassess and revitalise the architecture for delivering sustainable development. The experience of SDC's work within Government departments to improve their sustainability skills and performance is at risk of being lost, so the Government must ensure that this knowledge and expertise is absorbed by departments. Sustainable development needs to be driven from the centre of Government by a Minister and department with Whitehall-wide influence. They must be capable of holding all departments to account for their sustainable development performance. The Committee does not think Defra is best placed to lead this drive, and recommends that the Cabinet Office assume this role. And the Treasury could use its position to continue to develop 'sustainability reporting' by departments, strengthen the system of impact assessments and the 'Green Book' investment appraisal methodology for policy-making, and embed the results of the Government Economic Service review of the economics of sustainability and environmental valuation into those impact assessments and appraisals. Greater political leadership from the top should be brought to bear. The Government must introduce a full set of indicators to measure sustainable development that can be used to develop policy and must provide a new strategic underpinning for its commitment to sustainable development as an overarching goal of Government policy-making.

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The proposed abolition of the Youth Justice Board

tenth report of session 2010-12, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee

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The proposed abolition of the Youth Justice Board

tenth report of session 2010-12, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee

The Government has proposed that the Youth Justice Board (YJB) should be abolished, and its inclusion in the Public Bodies Bill is currently the subject of 'ping pong' between the two Houses of Parliament. The YJB is responsible for: advising the Justice Secretary on the operation of the youth justice system; monitoring the performance of that system; purchasing places for, and placing, children and young people remanded or sentenced to custody; disseminating effective practice; making grants to local authorities and others; and commissioning research and publishing information. The Government wants to transfer YJB's functions to a Youth Justice Division of the Ministry of Justice, arguing that this will restore direct Ministerial accountability. The Committee point out that if that does happen, certain steps must be taken to ensure that the new Division: is not part of NOMS; benefits from the establishment of a genuinely and visibly independent Advisory Board; improves the dissemination of best practice; and exercises 'light touch' oversight of Youth Offending Teams.

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Sustainable development in the National Planning Policy Framework

oral and written evidence, Wednesday 12 October 2011, Neil Sinden, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Peter Nixon, National Trust, Dr Hugh Ellis, Town and Country Planning Association, Naomi Lunde-Thompson, Friends of the Earth, John Slaughter, Home Builders Federation, Liz Peace, British Property Foundation, Rt Hon Greg Clark, MP, Minister, Department for Communities and Local Government and Richard Benyon, MP, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee

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Sustainable development in the National Planning Policy Framework

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee

Sustainable development in the National Planning Policy Framework : Oral and written evidence, Wednesday 12 October 2011, Neil Sinden, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Peter Nixon, National Trust, Dr Hugh Ellis, Town and Country Planning Association, Na

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Draft Local Audit Bill

Pre-legislative Scrutiny, Report of Session 2012-13, Vol. 1: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Draft Local Audit Bill ad Hoc Committee

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Draft Local Audit Bill

Pre-legislative Scrutiny, Report of Session 2012-13, Vol. 1: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

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Draft Local Audit Bill

By: Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government

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Draft Local Audit Bill

By: Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government

This Draft Local Audit Bill, sets out the government's vision for the future of local audit. It has been designed to implement the government's commitment to disband the Audit Commission and re-focus audit on helping local people hold their councils and other local public bodies to account for local spending decisions. The aim of this new draft bill is to develop a locally focused audit regime, but one still retaining a high quality of audit of local government spending. The government views the current audit arrangements for local public bodies as inefficient and unnecessarily centralised, which has created a system of weak cost incentives and therefore become too focused on reporting to central government and not local people. The new audit framework will also allow bodies to appoint their own auditors from an open and competitive market. The Bill also gives new responsibilities to the Financial Reporting Council, which will act as the overall regulator for auditors; the National Audit Office, which will set the code of audit practice; and the professional audit bodies will also have a role in regulating and monitoring audits.

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Public Audit (Wales) Bill (HL)

[as Amended in Standing Committee D]

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons,Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee D.

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Public Audit (Wales) Bill (HL)

[as Amended in Standing Committee D]

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons,Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee D.

Brought from the Lords on 12th May 2004

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The Draft Regional Assemblies Bill

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee

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The Draft Regional Assemblies Bill

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee

Incorporating HCP 972-i, ii, iii and iv, session 2003-04. An earlier volume of written evidence on this topic published as HCP 972-II, session 2003-04 (ISBN 0215019393). The draft Bill was published in July 2004 as Cm 6285 (ISBN 0101628528)

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Local Government Bill

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee A.,Stationery Office, The

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Local Government Bill

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Review of the National Audit Office's corporate governance

fourteenth report

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Accounts Commission

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Review of the National Audit Office's corporate governance

fourteenth report

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Accounts Commission

This report presents John Tiner's "Review of the National Audit Office's corporate governance". The head of the National Audit Office, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), is an Officer of the House of Commons appointed by the Queen, and is completely independent of Government and enjoys complete discretion over the discharge of his functions. The current C&AG has put in place a number of governance processes, but in their effectiveness these fall short of what is currently best practice. The NAO must remain independent, but work within systems of governance that are consistent with best practice, and follow relevant auditing and professional standards. The main proposals are: (1) the NAO should be formed as a body corporate with a governing board comprising a majority of independent non executive directors. Its main functions should be to set the strategy of the Office, support and oversee the work of the C&AG, ensure the Office conducts its business in an economic, efficient and effective way and satisfy itself that the systems of governance and internal controls operate effectively and to the highest standards. (2) The Chief Executive (the C&AG) should have complete personal discretion as to the audit judgements he reaches and the presentation of those judgements to the Public Accounts Committee and other committees of Parliament as may be necessary. (3) Both the Chairman and Chief Executive of the NAO Board would be appointed by the Queen on a motion from the House of Commons. The Chairman and the other non-executives should be appointed for a term of 3 years renewable once. The Chief Executive should be appointed for a fixed term of 8 years which cannot be renewed.

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Public Audit (Wales) Bill (HL)

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

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Public Audit (Wales) Bill (HL)

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

Brought from the Lords on 12th May 2004. Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Wales Office, are published separately as HC Bill 108-EN (ISBN 0215801423)

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The Government Response to the Fifth Report of the Committee Session 2002-03

The Draft Public Audit (Wales) Bill, First Special Report of Session 2003-04

By: Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Welsh Affairs Committee,Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Welsh Affairs

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The Government Response to the Fifth Report of the Committee Session 2002-03

The Draft Public Audit (Wales) Bill, First Special Report of Session 2003-04

By: Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Welsh Affairs Committee,Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Welsh Affairs

Reply to 5th report, HCP 763, session 2002-03 (ISBN 0215011708)

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Draft Local Audit Bill

Draft Local Audit Bill

House of Commons: Sessional Returns - HC 1

House of Commons: Sessional Returns - HC 1

Select Committee Effectiveness, Resources and Powers

Select Committee Effectiveness, Resources and Powers

Public Expenditure on Health and Care Services

Public Expenditure on Health and Care Services

Embedding sustainable development across Government, after the Secretary of State's announcement on the future of the Sustainable Development Commission

Embedding sustainable development across Government, after the Secretary of State's announcement on the future of the Sustainable Development Commission

The proposed abolition of the Youth Justice Board

The proposed abolition of the Youth Justice Board

Sustainable development in the National Planning Policy Framework

Sustainable development in the National Planning Policy Framework

Draft Local Audit Bill

Draft Local Audit Bill

Draft Local Audit Bill

Draft Local Audit Bill

Public Audit (Wales) Bill (HL)

Public Audit (Wales) Bill (HL)

The Draft Regional Assemblies Bill

The Draft Regional Assemblies Bill

Local Government Bill

Local Government Bill

Review of the National Audit Office's corporate governance

Review of the National Audit Office's corporate governance

Public Audit (Wales) Bill (HL)

Public Audit (Wales) Bill (HL)

The Government Response to the Fifth Report of the Committee Session 2002-03

The Government Response to the Fifth Report of the Committee Session 2002-03

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