Question follow-through · 900225
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to make efficiency savings in the welfare system.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 27 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to make efficiency savings in the welfare system.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2024
Answer published
In the July Statement, the Chancellor set out that all departments will find a 2% saving against their administration budgets so that we can improve the efficiency of the public sector, and prioritise frontline services. This government is also committed ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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