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Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Forty-Fourth report from Session 2024-26

Published 19 January 2026

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The government's response

This document responds to 44th Report - Governance and decision-making on major projects.

This is the government's response, published 19 January 2026.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government states that it "agrees with the Committee's recommendation" in each of the responses set out, with some marked as implemented and others given target dates.

  • On the Committee's request for a 12-month update on mega-project governance, the government agrees, with a target implementation date of September 2026; the Treasury "will write to the Committee".
  • On the £10 billion mega-project threshold and on alignment with Mission and place-based governance, the government agrees and records both recommendations as implemented, stating the Treasury "has written to the Committee".
  • On assurance, NISTA "will be reviewing and consulting on the assurance framework holistically"; the Treasury will tie higher Delegated Authority Limits to departments evidencing compliance with standards.
  • On reporting, the government agrees; NISTA "will consider how" existing reporting can be integrated with reporting against the Strategy, and the infrastructure pipeline "will be updated at least every six months".

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