Question follow-through · 44470
Public Expenditure Controls
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has issued to other departments on spending controls overseen by Ministers.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 7 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 36 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has issued to other departments on spending controls overseen by Ministers.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
The Cabinet Office has published guidance on spend controls here and will share updated guidance and information with departments if we make any changes to these controls. The most recent guidance issued to departments on spending controls was in relation...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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