Accountability for public money - progress report - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Accountability for public money - progress report write by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts. This book was released on 2012-04-17. Accountability for public money - progress report available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This report is a follow-up to the Committee's report on Accountability for Public Money (HC 740, session 2010-11 (ISBN 9780215559029)) an issue at the core of the relationship between Parliament and government. Accounting Officers remain accountable to Parliament for funds voted to their departments but the policy intention is that local bodies will have significant discretion over the services they deliver. In the Government's response, 'Accountability: Adapting to Decentralisation', Sir Bob Kerslake drew a distinction between those services that government delivers directly and those that it may fund but are delivered in more decentralised arrangements. He proposed that Accounting Officers set out, in Accountability System Statements, the arrangements they have in place to provide assurance about the probity and value for money of funds spent through devolved systems. All departments are expected to produce Statements by summer 2012. Departments have made a genuine effort to develop arrangements which reconcile accountability and localism but the Statements so far are unwieldy and considerably more needs to be done to improve their clarity, consistency and completeness. There is concern that accountability frameworks must drive value for money and, critically, are sufficiently robust to address the operational or financial failure of service providers. Departments are placing increasing reliance on market mechanisms such as user choice to drive up performance and value for money, but there are limits to what these mechanisms can achieve. The Treasury needs to take ownership of the system and ensure that the Comptroller and Auditor General has the necessary powers and rights of access to examine the value for money of funds spent through devolved systems
Department for Education
Department for Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Department for Education write by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts. This book was released on 2012-05-11. Department for Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Department for Education is distributing £56.4 billion in 2011-12 to schools, local authorities and other public bodies for the delivery of education and children's services in England. The Department has set out how it intends to provide Parliament with assurance about the regularity, propriety and value for money in an Accountability System Statement (the Statement) of which the Committee has now seen three drafts. Responsibility for value for money is shared by the Department with schools, academy trusts, local authorities, the Young People's Learning Agency and the Department for Communities and Local Government. However, the Statement does not yet clearly describe the specific responsibilities of each body, how these will interact, or how the Department will assess value for money across the entire education system. The Department relies on local authorities and the YPLA to exercise financial oversight over local authority maintained schools and academies respectively. However, oversight by some local authorities is currently weak and could worsen as many authorities reduce the resources they devote to overseeing their schools. There are also concerns about whether the YPLA will have the right skills, systems and capacity to oversee the rapidly increasing numbers of academies expected in coming years. More consistent requirements for data and data returns must be applied to all schools so that academic and financial performance can be benchmarked, and all schools can be held accountable. The Department needs to enforce these requirements more stringently, particularly given previous problems with lack of compliance
Progress Report on Public Transportation Under MAP-21
Progress Report on Public Transportation Under MAP-21 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Progress Report on Public Transportation Under MAP-21 write by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. This book was released on 2014. Progress Report on Public Transportation Under MAP-21 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Audit, Accountability and Government
Audit, Accountability and Government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Audit, Accountability and Government write by Fidelma White. This book was released on 1999. Audit, Accountability and Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text explains the constitutional purpose and significance of audit, and aspects of accountability in the British system of government. It suggests that audit delivers managerial accountability. It explains the basic concepts of accounting and audit, and sets audit in its historical context.
Financial Report of the United States Government
Financial Report of the United States Government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Financial Report of the United States Government write by . This book was released on 2009. Financial Report of the United States Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
