The GSD’s Roy Clinton has been invited to participate, as an online observer, in the CPA British Islands and Mediterranean Region Public Accounts Committee Network Event on 7th November 2025 which  is being held in Jersey this year. 

A statement from the GSD follows below:

GSD MP Roy Clinton has again been invited to participate, as an online observer, in the CPA British Islands  and Mediterranean Region (BIMR) Public Accounts Committee Network Event on 7 November 2025 which  is being held in Jersey this year. The BIMR network is an informal grouping of people who have a professional  interest in effective and efficient spending of public money and the event is organised on a self-funded basis.  

Roy Clinton MP the GSD Shadow Minster for Public Finance stated the following:  

“I am pleased to have again been personally invited to participate in this one day PAC online networking event  together with other interested individuals from the devolved parliaments in the UK and other crown and  overseas territories hosted by the Jersey States Assembly. This enables us, as HM Opposition, to keep up to  date on the latest thinking and issues that PACs face.  

On the agenda are matters such as ‘Tracking PAC recommendation’; ‘Challenges and Benefits of Audit  Institutions’; and ‘Scrutiny of Significant Spending’. I am particularly looking forward to participating in a  break-out group on ‘Scrutinising Health Expenditure’.  

Despite the GSLP/Liberal’s indefensible policy against the establishment of a Public Accounts Committee in  Gibraltar, and the Chief Minister’s vicious attack on the ex-Principal Auditor, a PAC is simply a matter of  best practice in public finance scrutiny. Gibraltar remains the only UK overseas territory without such a body  and the lack of a PAC undermines the ability of Parliament to ensure the taxpayer receives value for money.”