Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 8
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 ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
We heard charging bodies would value more signposting of where to go for expert advice and support and to learn from others’ experience. DVLA told us that more can be done to share good practice and that it is important to get those responsible for fees together to talk about what they are doing and some of the challenges.14 We asked the Treasury, given it has oversight across all the bodies that are setting the fees and charges, how it can help them learn from each other by sharing good practice. The Treasury told us that it has recently set up a working group in the Government Finance Function to share best practice on fees and charges and to be a feedback mechanism for the Treasury. The Treasury agreed that learning from best practice is helpful in terms of setting out things that departments should consider as standard.15 Strengthening oversight to improve financial management
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).