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Sixty-Eighth Report - Local authority administered COVID support schemes in England

Public Accounts Committee HC 1234 Published 6 September 2023

Report Status

Government responded

Conclusions & Recommendations

27 items (2 recs)

Source

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Government Response

AI assessment · 27 of 27 classified

Accepted 18

Accepted in Part 1

Acknowledged 3

Deferred 1

Not Addressed 1

Rejected 3

Government response

Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Sixty-eighth report from Session 2022-23 · published 18 Nov 2023

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Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item

24 Conclusion Deferred

Early grant schemes proceeded without predicted impact or standard business cases.

Conclusion

The requests made by BEIS officials for Ministerial Directions to proceed with the early grants schemes made reference to the Department’s inability to predict their impact in advance or construct a business case to normal standards. In particular, they referred … Read more

Government Response Summary

The government will publish the Ipsos evaluation report in late November 2023 and will subsequently write to the Committee to set out its conclusions from the evaluation, deferring the detailing of lessons learned until after the report's release.

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