Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom)
Select committee of the British House of Commons responsible for overseeing government expenditures / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Political Action Committee.
For similar names, see PAC.
The Committee of Public Accounts is a select committee of the British House of Commons. It is responsible for overseeing government expenditures, and to ensure they are effective and honest. The committee is seen as a crucial mechanism for ensuring transparency and accountability in government financial operations, having been described by Professor the Lord Hennessy as "the queen of the select committees...[which] by its very existence exert[s] a cleansing effect in all government departments".[1]
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