Andy Burnham MP, the shadow education secretary, has written to the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, Britain's most senior civil servant, asking him to scrutinise the £500,000 award to NSN by the Department for Education.
Last month, after a long investigation, the Office of Fair Trading asked the Competition Commission to scrutinise the entire industry.
"That's why Britain, with Germany and France, asked the OECD to scrutinise the international rules, and we will together welcome their report to the G20 this weekend.
So it wasn't surprising that, on November 4th, Vince Cable, the business secretary, asked Ofcom, the communications regulator, to scrutinise the deal.
Now after the half-term break it will be five days for ministers and three days for the first minister, which means that questions will be more topical and members can then ask much more concise questions to scrutinise the government," she said.
Burnham wrote to the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell last month, asking Britain's most senior civil servant to scrutinise the £500,000 award to the New Schools Network by the Department for Education.
The supermarket group, led by chief executive Dave Lewis, has asked the accountancy firm Deloitte and legal advisers Freshfields to scrutinise the overestimate at its troubled UK food business.
Asked about Phillips's comments, the prime minister's spokesman said it was absolutely necessary for MPs to scrutinise the process of leaving the EU but that MPs should not be given a vote on the package negotiated.
Asked whether the statements for these cards were scrutinised, he said: "It was not our role, my role or my staff's role to scrutinise the expenditure and forecast and budget on home life.
This would allow government MPs to scrutinise the bill.
