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Business question from Peter Bottomley (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 6 July 2023. It occurred during Business statement on Business of the House.

I thank my right hon. Friend for what she has said. Eight days ago, on 28 June, before the debate on the hybrid Holocaust Memorial Bill, but after I had come into the Chamber, a written statement from a Minister was put in the Library saying that the estimated cost in one year had gone up by more than twice the £17 million that the Government have already spent without achieving anything.

Does the Department think that is an appropriate way of putting important information into the public domain, when neither Minister speaking in the debate mentioned that increase of nearly £36 million and no MP in the Chamber knew about it?

Will the Leader of the House ask the permanent secretary in that Department to report this to the National Audit Office and ask it to update the report it made a year ago?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
735 c957 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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