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 Financial
Review
Budgetary
Information
As
an
advisory
Non-Departmental
Public
Body
(NDPB),
the
Committee
receives
its
delegated
budget
from
the
Cabinet
Office.
Although
the
Cabinet
Office
Accounting
Officer
has
a
personal
responsibility
for
the
regularity
and
propriety
of
the
Cabinet
Office
Vote,
the
responsibility
for
certain
levels
of
authorisation,
methods
of
control
and
day-to-day
mechanisms
has
been
delegated
downwards,
effectively
to
the
Secretary
to
the
Committee.
She
is
free
to
manage
the
allocation
as
she
thinks
best
to
deliver
the
activities
and
targets
published
in
the
Cabinet
Office
Departmental
Report
(Cm
5119,
The
Government's
Expenditure
Plans
2001-02
to
2003-04,
and
Main
Estimates
2001-02).
As well as recording the Committee's budget in a conventional way, to be helpful and in line with the spirit of openness, we estimate the gross expenditure involved in each report when it is published. The Seventh Report on Standards of Conduct in the House of Lords was estimated to have cost £378,231. This includes staff and administrative costs, the cost of printing and distributing copies of a consultation paper setting out the key issues and questions the Committee would cover in each report, costs associated with public hearings, and estimated costs of printing, publishing and distributing each report.
Payment
Performance
The Committee aims to comply with HM Treasury's guidance on measuring and targeting of performance in the paying of invoices. The Committee's policy is to pay bills in accordance with contractual conditions, or within 30 days of receipt of goods and services or the presentation of a valid invoice. The Committee settled 100% of all suppliers' invoices in 2000-01 within either the agreed contractual provisions or 30 days of the date of presentation of a valid invoice.
The
30
days
are
measured
from
the
date
at
which
the
invoice
was
received
into
the
office
Table
1:
Expenditure
and
Cash
Plans
1990-00
to
2003-04
1
Proposed
allocation
for
future
years
Table
2:
Prompt
Payment
Statistics
Annual
Performance
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