Sentence examples for estimate committee from inspiring English sources

Another factor is that, as chairman of the members' estimate committee, Martin is currently conducting a review of the way MPs' expenses are paid.

It went on: "To make the process of our deliberations open, we will publish our programme on the [members estimate committee] website together with the papers we receive.

It is still possible that the members estimate committee will consider setting up an independent appeals process to look at Legg's rulings.

In a two-page interim report, the members estimate committee said it would be looking at "radical options" for restructuring pay and allowances.

The members estimate committee review was ordered last month by the Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, after it emerged that a Conservative MP had paid his son a researcher's salary while he was a full-time university student.

"Thanks to all of those who have kindly (and not so kindly – they are the majority and are all Labor/Greens staffers, union heavies and staff and good old GetUp and old leftie journalists) – made media and social media comment on recent media reports on the Senate estimate committee on Professor Triggs and the partisan-ly titled report on children in detention, Forgotten Children.

She quickly gained a reputation for her forthright and sometimes confrontational style of cross-examination in Senate estimate committees and fiery chamber performances.

The all-party members' estimates committee is expected to ask PricewaterhouseCoopers to undertake the audit.

It is unprecedented to ask a minister to appear before an estimates committee.

This raised legitimate questions about its purpose, Richardson told a Senate estimates committee hearing on Monday.

He also denied it in evidence to the Senate estimates committee on 5 June.