Committee of Public Accounts
HM Revenue &
Customs: Annual
Report and Accounts
2011–12
Nineteenth Report of Session 2012–13
Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence
Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 28 November 2012
HC 716
Published on 3 December 2012 by authority of the House of Commons
London: The Stationery Office Limited
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Committee of Public Accounts
The Committee of Public Accounts is appointed by the House of Commons to examine ‘‘the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by
Parliament to meet the public expenditure, and of such other accounts laid before Parliament as the committee may think fit’’ (Standing Order No 148).
Current membership
Rt Hon Margaret Hodge (Labour, Barking) (Chair)
Mr Richard Bacon (Conservative, South Norfolk)
Mr Stephen Barclay (Conservative, North East Cambridgeshire)
Guto Bebb (Conservative, Aberconwy)
Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative, Thurrock)
Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative, Daventry)
Meg Hillier (Labour, Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Mr Stewart Jackson (Conservative, Peterborough)
Fiona Mactaggart (Labour, Slough)
Mr Austin Mitchell (Labour, Great Grimsby)
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Bromsgrove)
Nick Smith (Labour, Blaenau Gwent)
Ian Swales (Liberal Democrats, Redcar)
Mr Justin Tomlinson (Conservative, North Swindon)
The following Members were also Members of the committee during the parliament: Dr Stella Creasy (Labour/Cooperative, Walthamstow)
Justine Greening (Conservative, Putney)
Joseph Johnson (Conservative, Orpington)
Eric Joyce (Labour, Falkirk)
Rt Hon Mrs Anne McGuire (Labour, Stirling)
Matthew Hancock (Conservative, West Suffolk)
James Wharton (Conservative, Stockton South)
Powers
The committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No
152. These are available on the internet via