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25 May 2022

Dame Meg Hillier, who chairs the influential Public Accounts Committee, can regularly be found quizzing an array of MPs and Whitehall officials.

And quite often she fails to hide her irritation at the lengthy job titles given to civil servants who are hauled in front of her to answer tough questions.

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