Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 1
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Not Addressed
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence...
Conclusion
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence from the Department for Education (the Department) and Edenred (UK Group) Ltd (Edenred) about the free school meals voucher scheme, which ran from 1 April 2020 to the end of the school summer holiday.1
Government response summary AI-generated
The government response discusses a breach in the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy's expenditure, which is entirely unrelated to the committee's introductory statement about the free school meals voucher scheme.
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Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government · verbatim extract
Not Addressed
2. PAC conclusion: The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy breached its Resource Annually Managed Expenditure total by £4.9 billion.
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