Can the UK parliament scrutinise tax and spending effectively?
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The UK government raises and spends billions of pounds each year. Parliament – and especially the House of Commons – has an important responsibility to scrutinise this. But its financial scrutiny procedures can be hard to understand, and some have argued that they need strengthening and improving. So how do MPs scrutinise governments’ tax and spending? How do Westminster’s financial scrutiny procedures compare to those in other parliaments? Are they sufficiently robust? And, if not, what could be done to improve them?
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