Question follow-through · 22455
Arms Length Bodies
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 14108 on Arm’s Length Bodies, on what statutory basis Permanent Secretaries rather than Ministers approve framework agreements.
About this written question
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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, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 14108 on Arm’s Length Bodies, on what statutory basis Permanent Secretaries rather than Ministers approve framework agreements.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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15 Jan 2025
Answer published
Permanent Secretaries are appointed as Accounting Officers for their departments by the Treasury under section 5 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000. They are directly responsible to Parliament for ensuring that their department's use of pub...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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