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      <title>&amp;#39;Building New Nuclear: the challenges ahead&amp;#39; report published </title>
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      <title>Public Accounts Committee releases report on Managing the Defence Inventory</title>
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      <description>Statement from Richard Bacon MP as Committee publishes its 32nd Report of this Session</description>
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      <title>MPs hold evidence session for scrutiny of proposed State Pension reforms</title>
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      <description>Work and Pensions Committee oral evidence sessions on Wendesday 27 February</description>
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      <title>Transforming Rehabilitation</title>
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      <description>Justice Committee holds one-off evidence session with the Secretary of State for Justice</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Support for the creative economy evidence session</title>
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      <description>Culture, Media and Sport Committee takes evidence from the film and games industry</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:01:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MPs publish report on the West Coast franchise competition</title>
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      <description>Department for Transport&amp;#39;s lack of common sense costs the taxpayer &amp;#163;50 million</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Problems with government statistics need to be addressed to ensure public confidence, says PASC</title>
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      <description>Public Administration Select Committee publishes its review of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Report examines performance of the Work Programme</title>
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      <description>Public Accounts Committee publishes its 33rd Report of this Session</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Third evidence session on &amp;#39;A Severn Barrage?&amp;#39;</title>
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      <description>Energy and Climate Change Committee hears evidence on Thursday 28 February 2013</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Public Accounts Committee calls on HMRC to name and shame those who sell tax avoidance schemes</title>
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      <description>MPs urge action to curb billions lost to the revenue each year</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Report published on HM Treasury: Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12</title>
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      <description>Public Accounts Committee publishes its 27th Report of this Session</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Public Accounts Committee comments on tax credits error and fraud report</title>
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      <description>Statement from Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee, on NAO report</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MPs call for more testing of food safety and composition across the food industry</title>
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      <description>Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee concludes FSA needs clear powers and responsibilities so that it can respond more effectively to any future food adulteration scandal</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MPs take evidence on flood defence funding and related issues</title>
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      <description>Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee holds oral evidence session on Wednesday 13 February 2013</description>
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      <description>Statement from Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee</description>
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      <description>MPs urge the Government to introduce the necessary amending legislation as a matter of urgency</description>
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      <description>Public Accounts Committee publishes its twenty-third report of session 2012-13</description>
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