Question follow-through · 52412
Government Departments: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reduce waste in government departments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 22 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reduce waste in government departments.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2025
Answer published
As part of the second phase of the spending review Departments have been set a stretching 5% productivity, efficiency and savings target. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury has also asked each department to carry out a line-by-line review of existing day...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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