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Home Office: Public Expenditure

Commons · Question 88852 · Tabled 10 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 20 Nov 2025

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Asked by James Wild

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2025 to Question 61219 on Government Departments: Reviews, how many lines of activity in her Department were considered as part of the zero based review.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 20 Nov 2025

At Spending Review 2025, the government conducted the first zero-based review (ZBR) of department budgets in 18 years, with every line of spending scrutinised to ensure value for money.Through the zero-based review, the Home Office carried out a line by l...