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Seventeenth Report - Cabinet Office functional savings
Public Accounts Committee
HC 423
Published 1 March 2024
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Conclusion
Not Addressed
The Cabinet Office has measured and reported on the financial efficiency savings and wider benefits made by cross-government functions since 2021. In March 2022, it reported that functions, departments and other central government bodies had achieved £3.4 billion of cash-releasing savings in 2020–21. Of this, £1.4 billion was attributable to …
Government Response Summary
The government response reiterates that the Cabinet Office started measuring and reporting financial efficiency savings in 2021, repeating the same figures for 2020-21 (£3.4 billion cash-releasing) and 2021-22 (£3.4 billion cash-releasing and £1.0 billion non-cash-releasing) as stated in the committee's observation.