PAC Survey 2017

Dear Heads of SAIs,

In preparation for the first Public Accounts Committee (PAC) workshop to be held in the Solomon Islands in September 2017 and subsequently to selected SAIs, the PASAI Advocate Eroni Vatuloka is gathering information on PACs in the region. In this respect, he would appreciate your response to the following 5 questions:

Name

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

a) Status of PAC

(i) Is there a Public Accounts Committee of Parliament or a similar Committee (“committee”) that scrutinises the audited accounts (and other reports) of government and its entities?

(ii) When the Committee was first established?

YYYY

b) Legal framework

What does the legislation/ Parliament Rules-Standing Orders say about the operations of the committee?

(Please send us a copy of the relevant sections of the legislation and/or standing orders for our reference)

c) Membership of the committee

(i) What is the composition of the committee?

How are the Committee members selected or appointed?

(ii) Is the Chair of the committee a representative of government or the opposition?

(iii) What is the composition (professional and secretariat) of the support staff?

d) Specific role of committee

(i) What are the specific roles of the committee?

(ii) What the committee does not do?

E) Please provide an indication of the committee activity in the last 3 years

(i) Number of meetings held

(ii) Number of reports dealt with

(iii) Number of committee reports issued

(iv) Number of government responses to committee reports

f) Briefing of the committee

(i) Does the SAI assist the PAC with the preliminary questions?

(ii) Does the SAI seek support and discuss audit areas and the SAI’s commitment with the committee?

(iii) Does the SAI assist with the deliberation of the committee?

(iv) Does the SAI assist with the drafting of the committee reports?

g) Resourcing and Support for PAC

(i) How is the Committee resourced? Does it have a budget of its own and which Ministry administers the committee’s budget?

(ii) Does the SAI provide any support or assistance to the committee?

h) What other features of the committee scrutiny process you would like to share?

Other

Please submit by Friday 7th July 2017.

I thank you for your continued support and cooperation.