Question follow-through · 22402
Government Departments: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Q36 of the oral evidence given by the Office for Value for Money to the Treasury Select Committee on 11 December 2024, HC 521, which Departments have not (a) defined and (b) commenced their zero-ba
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Q36 of the oral evidence given by the Office for Value for Money to the Treasury Select Committee on 11 December 2024, HC 521, which Departments have not (a) defined and (b) commenced their zero-ba
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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15 Jan 2025
Answer published
Phase 2 of the Spending Review launched on the 10th December 2024. At launch, I asked each department to carry out a line-by-line review of existing day-to-day budgets to identify where spending is no longer aligned with this government’s priorities or is...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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