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Departmental Select Committees and the Next Steps Programmehe burgeoning power of the executive. It is therefore not surprising that some academic commentators should suggest that select committees offer one way of ensuring that constitutional conventions and the proprieties of ministerial accountability are preserved in the face of the Next Steps programme

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Financial Accountability: Agencies and Audithe National Audit Office (NAO) or the Committee of Public Accounts (PAC), because the agencies have remained very largely funded by voted money. The NAO was set up under the National Audit Act 1983 and reports to the House of Commons. It is answerable to the House of Commons through the Public Accou

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Agencies and the Ombudsmansman—and his associated Commons Select Committee have not loomed large in the development of the Next Steps programme. In the Ibbs Report it rates a single sentence in the Annex dealing with ., a sentence which says simply, ‘the powers of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration could conti

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The Department of Social Security and its Agenciesf Social Security is the greatest test of Next Steps principles and their effect on parliamentary accountability. It is by far the most important department in expenditure terms with a programme expenditure of some ￡86 billion a year (nearly a third of all public expenditure) and running costs of ov