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The Public Expenditure Control System

In: Public Expenditure Policy, 1984–85

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  • Paul Cockle

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Throughout history, controlling expenditure and raising the necessary counterbalancing revenues have been primary functions of government. In the United Kingdom, the Treasury where these functions now reside, is fond of tracing its origins back to the Witanagemot at least in its more pretentious moments. No doubt, an official historian with sufficient imagination could push the origins at least back to the court of King Arthur, if not beyond. Most of this volume is devoted to the expenditure control problem rather than to issues of revenue raising. Some of this chapter is devoted to the development of the public expenditure control system over the last 30 years. This is not because of a direct concern with this history in its own right — interesting though the subject is — but because the present day system itself is largely a product of historical accident, as existing controls had to be patched up and modified in changing circumstances.

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  • Paul Cockle, 1984. "The Public Expenditure Control System," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Paul Cockle (ed.), Public Expenditure Policy, 1984–85, chapter 2, pages 20-39, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17623-6_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17623-6_2
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