Which Labour MP has been Chair of the Public Accounts Select Committee since 2010?
Margaret Hodge Margaret Hodge Dame Margaret Eve Hodge, Lady Hodge, (née Oppenheimer; born 8 September 1944) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Barking since 1994. Hodge was created Minister for Children in 2003 before becoming Minister of State for Culture and Tourism in 2005. On 9 June 2010 she was elected Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, in succession to Sir Edward Leigh MP. She served until 30 March 2015. Since November 2018, she has been Chair of Council at Royal Holloway, University of London. Born Margaret Eve Oppenheimer, she was known as Margaret
Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom) Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom) The Committee of Public Accounts is a select committee of the British House of Commons. It is responsible for overseeing government expenditures, and to ensure they are effective and honest. The committee is seen as a crucial mechanism for ensuring transparency and accountability in government financial operations, having been described by Professor the Lord Hennessy as "the queen of the select committees...[which] by its very existence exert[s] a cleansing effect in all government departments." The recommendation for the creation of a committee to oversee government accounts was first put forward in 1857 by a small