Public Accounts committee – Hackney Citizen

Local MP Meg Hillier re-elected chair of influential government spending watchdog

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 28 January 2020 at 14:41

Hackney South rep to front public accounts committee for third time, and promises to ‘call out every politician who tries to pretend austerity never happened’

Labour’s Meg Hillier rules out defection but reveals hopes for a vote on second referendum

By Max Eckersley | Friday 22 February 2019 at 14:31

The Hackney South MP hints that she could break with official party policy next week to back a fresh public vote

Titbits – Quiet consultations and confusing quotations

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 1 December 2017 at 09:52

More on the Town Hall’s communication problems in this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

‘Government’s free schools policy unsustainable’, warns Hackney MP

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 27 April 2017 at 14:19

Report by cross-party committee of MPs led by Meg Hillier slams Department for Education’s ‘incoherent’ use of funding

Hackney schools face ‘devastating’ funding crisis, warn campaigners

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 March 2017 at 16:45

Government under fire for ‘throwing money’ at free schools as borough is hit by further cuts