Through our work we often see a lack of openness and transparency about programme progress, performance and decision-making. In January 2021, we concluded it was vital that Parliament’s own major project, the Restoration and Renewal Programme, was an exemplar of an open and transparent project which welcomes full scrutiny.93 84 HC1100 Q 116; Sponsor Body, Restoration and Renewal Programme: Essential Scheme: initial assessment of cost and schedule; and continued presence: impact study, DEP2022–0145, 23 February 2022 85 HC49 Q4 86 RRP0003 87 HC49 Q 38 88 HC1100 Qq 106, 108–109 89 HC1100 Q 132 90 Joint report from the House of Commons and House of Lords Commissions, 14 June 2022, pg 23 91 HC49 Qq 55–57 92 HC49 Q 59 93 Public Accounts Committee, Lessons from major projects and programmes, Thirty-Ninth Report, Session 2019– 21, HC 694, 29 January 2021 Restoration and Renewal of Parliament 19