Alan Brown – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Leader of the House

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alan Brown on 2016-01-18.

To ask the Leader of the House, what progress the Government is making on reform of the Estimates process.

Chris Grayling

Estimates are formal requests for authorisation of expenditure proposed to the House by the Government. Scrutiny of these, which are effectively departmental budgets, is undertaken in a variety of ways including debates selected by the Liaison Committee and it is open to select committees to examine these budgets.

The Procedure Committee has recently announced that it will examine the House’s procedures for examining the Estimates and the passing of legislation which authorises this expenditure through the Supply and Consideration Bill.

The Committee is accepting written submissions until 25 March 2016.