Committee on Estimates

Examines the Government's budget estimates and recommends ways to make economies, improve efficiency and reform administration.

• Examining such estimates as it thinks fit or as Parliament refers to it.
• Reporting what economies, improvements in organisation, efficiency or administrative reform, consistent with the policy underlying the estimates, can be made.
• Suggesting alternative policies to bring about efficiency and economy in administration.
• Examining whether the money is well laid out within the limits of the policy, and recommending the form in which the estimates are to be presented to Parliament.

The committee has not more than 10 members.

Source: Rules of Procedure of Parliament, rules 235–237