Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee

Cabinet Office functional savings

Status: Closed Opened: 13 Dec 2023 Closed: 3 May 2024 18 recommendations 10 conclusions 1 report

Government established cross-cutting central functional teams, or ‘functions’, in 2013. These seek to provide expert skills across Government while increasing efficiency. In July 2023, the Cabinet Office reported that the functions had achieved £4.4bn of financial savings. A National Audit Office (NAO) report found that the Cabinet Office has not consistently reported the efficiency savings …

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Reports

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Title HC No. Published Items Response
Seventeenth Report - Cabinet Office functional savings HC 423 1 Mar 2024 28 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

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11 Conclusion Seventeenth Report - Cabinet Office fun… Not Addressed

Cabinet Office reports billions in functional efficiency savings, predominantly from key central functions

The Cabinet Office has measured and reported on the financial efficiency savings and wider benefits made by cross-government functions since 2021. In March 2022, it reported that functions, departments and other central government bodies had achieved £3.4 billion of cash-releasing savings in 2020–21. Of this, £1.4 billion was attributable to …

Government response. The government response reiterates that the Cabinet Office started measuring and reporting financial efficiency savings in 2021, repeating the same figures for 2020-21 (£3.4 billion cash-releasing) and 2021-22 (£3.4 billion cash-releasing and £1.0 billion non-cash-releasing) as stated in the committee's …
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Oral evidence sessions

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Date Witnesses
10 Jan 2024 Cat Little · Cabinet Office, Richard Hornby · Cabinet Office, Sir Alex Chisholm · Cabinet Office View ↗

Correspondence

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DateDirectionTitle
5 Feb 2024 Correspondence from Sir Alex Chisholm, Civil Service Chief Operating Officer an…