Committee of Public Accounts
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a group of members of the House of Commons in Britain who have been chosen to check that the spending of government departments has been according to levels agreed in parliament;
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Committee of Public Accounts UK US noun GOVERNMENT, ACCOUNTING
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The Committee of Public Accounts concluded that we are paying over the odds for fixed-line calls.
Financial and business terms.
2012.
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