Public Accounts Committee launches eleven new inquiries

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today announces its next slate of upcoming inquiries, providing scrutiny of Government spending and delivery across a range of Government Departments.

The programme of inquiries, held over the next few months, was selected by members of the Committee, in discussions led by the Chair of the Committee, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP.

Each inquiry is underpinned by its own recent National Audit Office report. Committee members will use reports as a starting point and agreed factual basis from which to conduct their scrutiny to hold government to account for how it spends public money.

The inquiries are as follows:

• Accountability in small government bodies
• Civil service pensions
• Cost of maintaining the FCDO's overseas estate
• Government fees, charges and levies
• Government use of data analytics to make fraud and error savings
• Improving family court services for children
• Improving government customer service
• Improving local areas through developer funding
• Local bus services in England
• MoD's oversight of Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Associations
• Resilience to threats from animal disease