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Debate on Monday, 5 July 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Mark Hoban. The answering member was Gareth Thomas.

Alignment (Clear Line of Sight) Project

Debate on a motion to approve the proposals for simplifying the Government's spending controls and financial reporting to Parliament, as set out in the paper, Alignment (Clear Line of Sight) Project, Cm 7567, of March 2009, and the response of October 2009 to the relevant report of the Liaison Committee (Second Special Report of the Liaison Committee, Session 2008-09, Financial Scrutiny: Parliamentary Control over Government Budgets: Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2008-09, HC 1074). Agreed on question and resolved.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
513 c85-108 
Session
2010-12
Department
Treasury
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Alignment (clear line of sight) project.
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Command papers
House of Lords
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Edward Leigh | 513 c97-100 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me in this important debate. The effective monitoring of ...
Michael Fallon | 513 c100-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Mr Leigh), and all of us look...
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Lord Tyrie | 513 c94 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I am near the end of my remarks and I would rather get to the end...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 513 c94-6 (Link to this contribution) I join others in warmly welcoming the moves that are being taken to simplify and align the reporting...
John Hemming | 513 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) May I start by apologising to the House for my mobile phone ringing just now? It was definitely swit...
Mark Hoban | 513 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) I wish to respond briefly to the debate. As someone who in his previous career was a chartered acco...
Claire O'Neill | 513 c106-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to delay the Minister further, but I felt it important to say how broadly I welcome this ...
Nadhim Zahawi | 513 c104-6 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak on a topic that is of great importance to this House but that sadly, as my hon. Frie...
Penny Mordaunt | 513 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) I broadly welcome the motion. I particularly welcome the proposal that parliamentary time must be pr...
Edward Leigh | 513 c87 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend recall that in 2007, the Treasury Committee acknowledged""that the requirements ...
Edward Leigh | 513 c89 (Link to this contribution) Let us get this absolutely clear. Although the Treasury originally said that there might be a proble...
Gareth Thomas | 513 c90-2 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome this opportunity to debate the clear line of sight project. What happened this weeke...
Nadhim Zahawi | 513 c92 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly puzzled by the shadow Minister's speech, because it sounds like a debate for tomorrow....
Gareth Thomas | 513 c92-3 (Link to this contribution) With all due respect to the hon. Gentleman, if he had done some research into what these proposals a...
Lord Tyrie | 513 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Harrow West (Mr Thomas) strayed rather a long way out of the line of sight of th...
George Mudie | 513 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) I did not intend to speak in this debate, but I was enormously cheered by the contributions from the...
Mark Hoban | 513 c88 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady raises some interesting points. On her first point, my understanding is that thi...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 513 c88 (Link to this contribution) On my second point, the freedom of NDPBs to spend reserves from moneys they themselves have raised w...
Mark Hoban | 513 c87 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point and I will come later to the treatment of income in the clea...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 513 c87-8 (Link to this contribution) May I ask a number of questions on the non-departmental bodies with which the hon. Gentleman was dea...
Mark Hoban | 513 c88 (Link to this contribution) We will look at it, but incorporating NDPBs into the clear line of sight project so that their resul...
Mark Hoban | 513 c85-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House approves the proposals for simplifying the Government's spending cont...
Mark Hoban | 513 c90 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will wish to welcome that.
Gareth Thomas | 513 c90 (Link to this contribution) The Financial Secretary rightly made reference to the support of the Liaison Committee and to the wo...
Mark Hoban | 513 c90 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, the Liaison Committee's recommendations preceded the decision by this Government to set up ...
Mark Hoban | 513 c88-9 (Link to this contribution) No, I want to make some more progress. A number of Members on both sides of the House wish to partic...
Mark Hoban | 513 c89-90 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that that is the case. What we will also be able to do—this deals with something...
Mark Hoban | 513 c88 (Link to this contribution) I am sure you would rule me out of order, Mr Deputy Speaker, if I started responding to questions as...
Gareth Thomas | 513 c88 (Link to this contribution) While the hon. Gentleman is on the subject of NDPBs, can he clarify now for the House the future of ...
Gareth Thomas | 513 c88 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way again?
Subjects
Budgets Public expenditure Parliamentary scrutiny
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