Recommendation 9

HM Treasury guidance states that for GMPP programmes the accounting officer should publish a summary of the key points in each AO assessment unless there are overriding sensitivities, such as commercial considerations, that outweigh the merits of making the assessment publicly available.25 HM Treasury requires accounting officers to publish a summary AO assessment ‘as soon as the decision to proceed has been noted’ but does not set a prescribed timeframe for doing so.26