Public Accounts Committee Hearing

On 14th March 2023, the National Audit Office published a landmark report following its investigation into the Child Trust Fund scheme and on Thursday 18th May the Public Accounts Select Committee carried out its hearing to follow up the issues raised by the NAO's findings. The witnesses who took part were, for HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra and Emily Antcliffe, and for The Share Foundation, Gavin Oldham and Anthony Walker. Members of the Public Accounts Committee (all MPs) who attended were Dame Meg Hillier (chair), Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Deputy Chair), Olivia Blake, Flick Drummond, Peter Grant, Jill Mortimer and Nick Smith. The hearing ran for over an hour and a half.

You can read the Treasury minutes here , and the full hearing can be seen below -