Question follow-through · 901596

Public Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help ensure value for money in public spending.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
3 Dec 2024
Answer
3 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help ensure value for money in public spending.

  2. 3 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 3 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    At Autumn Budget, we launched the Office for Value for Money to realise benefits from every pound of public spending. We set out plans for a Covid Corruption Commissioner to recover public funds and we have cancelled the migration partnership with Rwanda....

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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