10 Downing Street: Expenditure Scrutiny

HL Deb 12 January 2000 vol 608 c121WA

Lord Patten

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What Parliamentary scrutiny there is of the operations of, and expenditure on, 10 Downing Street. [HL394]

Lord Falconer of Thoroton

Parliamentary scrutiny of the operations of, and expenditure on, 10 Downing Street proceeds in the normal way through the voting of money by Parliament and the auditing of accounts by the National Audit Office. Members of either House are able, of course, to ask questions of the Government on these subjects.