• Decisions of all public bodies, including the Cabinet, and parastatals should be published subject to safeguards to protect national security. If public officers know their decisions will be published they may take more care to ensure that the decisions are lawful. • Parliamentary control over public expenditure should be strengthened: o All Government expenditure and revenue should be subject to scrutiny by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament and should be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor-General. At present some funds of the President’s Office are neither scrutinised nor audited. Such lack of accountability encourages unlawfulness. o Government officials who delay submitting their accounts to the Public Accounts Committee or who are responsible for over-expenditure by their Ministries should be subject to automatic disciplinary action and possible dismissal. • Parliament’s power to impeach members of the Executive should be extended. Under the present Constitution it requires a two-thirds majority of both the Senate and the House of Assembly to impeach the President or to pass a vote of no confidence in the Government. The new constitution should allow Parliament, by a simple majority, to pass a vote of no confidence in individual Ministers and require the President or Prime Minister to replace the Minister concerned if such a vote is passed. The new constitution should also reduce the majority needed for a vote of no confidence in the Government — a government that can no longer command a majority in Parliament should not remain in office. ___________________________ 47