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2 unusual facts about Public Accounts Committee


Public Accounts Committee

Public Accounts Committee (Canada) (officially Standing Committee on Public Accounts, PACP) of the Canadian House of Commons

Public Accounts Committee (South Africa) (officially Standing Committee on Public Accounts) of the National Assembly of South Africa


Computer Sciences Corporation

In June 2013, Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, a Select Committee of the British House of Commons, described CSC as a "rotten company providing a hopeless system", with reference to their multi-billion pound contract to deliver the National Programme for IT Lorenzo contract.

Work Capability Assessment

In 2013 a Public Accounts Committee made up of MPs and chaired by Margaret Hodge, revealed that in 2011/12 Atos was paid 112.4m to carry out 738,000 assessments.


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Eric Allaby

On February 3, 2006 it was announced that Allaby would become the chair of the Public Accounts Committee, replacing Frank Branch who left the Liberal caucus.

The Doughnut

In 2004 the chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, Edward Leigh, criticised the increasing cost of GCHQ's move to the Doughnut.