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Recommendation 21
21
Accepted
Department's accounting officer detailed excess expenditure and audit qualification to committee.
Recommendation
The Department’s Accounting Officer wrote to the Public Accounts Committee on 28 January 2025, setting out further detail behind the excess and the Comptroller & Auditor General’s qualification of his audit opinion on the Department’s 2023–24 Annual Report and Accounts.4 We expect to raise this matter again as part of our ongoing scrutiny of the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. 4 Letter from Department for Business and Trade to PAC dated 18 January 2025 8
Government Response Summary
Following the publication of the 2023-24 excesses by the Committee, HM Treasury has laid the Statement of Excesses 2023-24, which are included in the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2025 providing the additional resources by means of an Excess Vote which received Royal Assent on 11 March 2025.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
3. PAC conclusion: The Department for Business and Trade was authorized a Voted Resource Annually Managed Expenditure limit of £950,594,000. Against this limit, it incurred an outturn of £1,169,995,000 exceeding the authorized limit by £219,401,000. 3a. PAC recommendation: Under the terms of the Standing Order of the House of Commons number 55(2)(d), we recommend that Parliament provides the additional resources by means of an Excess Vote, as set out in Figure 1. 3.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Recommendation implemented: March 2025 3.2 Following the publication of the 2023-24 excesses by the Committee, HM Treasury has laid the Statement of Excesses 2023-24. These excesses are included in the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2025 providing the additional resources by means of an Excess Vote which received Royal Assent on 11 March 2025.