Select committee: Education Committee

Financial management at the Department for Education

Closed Opened 1 Mar 2016 Closed 2 May 2017

Education Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗

Inquiry scope (the committee's words)

The Committee will hold the Department to account in respect of the late publication of its annual report and accounts for 2014-15, question the Department on the separation of its accounts and the accounts of academies, and explore the relationship between financial management, strategy and policy. Learn more about DfE's decision to extend the deadline for publishing its accounts

Where it stands

The inquiry is closed, opened 1 March 2016.

The committee has not published a report yet.

Evidence

2 oral evidence sessionsLatest 25 October 2016

All evidence

Recent activity

Letter from Permanent Secretary to Chair re Financial management 21-10-20169 November 2016, Correspondence
Letter from Chair to the Permanent Secretary regarding DfE finances 8-11-20169 November 2016, Correspondence
Oral evidence session25 October 2016, Oral evidence

Oral evidence sessions

2 sessions

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Date	Session and witnesses	Source
25 Oct 2016	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
9 Mar 2016	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters

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Published	Direction	Letter
9 Nov 2016	To committee	Letter from Permanent Secretary to Chair re Financial management 21-10-2016
9 Nov 2016	To committee	Letter from Chair to the Permanent Secretary regarding DfE finances 8-11-2016
8 Mar 2016	To committee	Letter from the Permanent Secretary to the Committee regarding the DfE's annual report and accounts