Author
our parliamentary correspondent
Date published
January 18, 2005
Categories
Link: NAO report links money-launderers to gambling
Chief Treasury Secretary Paul Boateng wrote to Comptroller and Auditor General Sir John Bourn seeking to limit financial audit costs to 2005-06 levels for the next two years, and pressing the case in a letter to the Commission.
MPs approved the NAO’s 2006-07 budget but said they would require a more detailed justification of increases in 2007-08. They pointed out it was the NAO’s duty to ensure additional government spending produced tangible results.