Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 6
57th Report - Government services: Generating income
Published 10 Dec 2025
Addressed to HM Treasury
Public Accounts Committee Government services: Identifying costs and generating income All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
The NAO reported that Treasury places primary reliance on individual department’s accounting officers to monitor their fees and charges. Accounting officers are responsible for maintaining effective governance and internal controls, including ensuring that fees are set appropriately and disclosed in-line with Treasury guidance.7 The Treasury highlighted that one of the challenges with this approach is that everyone is doing things in silos resulting in inconsistency across government.8 We asked the Treasury what it is looking to do to help strengthen the arrangements to improve oversight of fee setting.9 The Treasury told us it intends to do more to help accounting officers by regularly assessing and looking at the system, as well as help departments navigate it using best practice.10
From: Public Accounts Committee, 57th Report - Government services: Generating income (HC 890), 10 December 2025
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 1 April 2026 (deadline 10 February 2026).