holding gov to account-select committee

Cards (3)

  • Select committees may call in officials and experts for questioning and can demand information from the government.
  • For example, a recent report from the House of Lords claimed "governments have failed a generation of young people" and recommend that the Government needs to be more fairly in funding academic and non academic routes.
  • For example in 2018 select committees recommended to the government that they should expand the Heathrow airport but the government was accused of ignoring it.