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Public Expenditure

Commons · Question 2386 · Tabled 30 Jul 2024 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 6 Sep 2024

Question

Asked by Kit Malthouse

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what day and time (a) she and (b) her advisers received the first draft of her Department's publication entitled Fixing the Foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, CP 1133.

Answer

Answered by Darren Jones, 6 Sep 2024

As the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out in her statement to Parliament on 29th July 2024, she asked Treasury officials, on her first day in office, to undertake a rapid audit of public spending. Officials updated the Chancellor on the findings of the a...