As part of the government’s ambition to make savings equivalent to 5% of overall spend across government by 2024–25, every government department has both an efficiency target and an efficiency assumption “baked-in” to the funding allocated to it as part of the Spending Review. The Treasury explained that different departments had slightly different targets, depending on what it considered was deliverable. In its March 2022 and July 2023 reports on Government Efficiency Savings, however, the C...

As part of the government’s ambition to make savings equivalent to 5% of overall spend across government by 2024–25, every government department has both an efficiency target and an efficiency assumption “baked-in” to the funding allocated to it as part of the Spending Review. The Treasury explained that different departments had slightly different targets, depending on what it considered was deliverable. In its March 2022 and July 2023 reports on Government Efficiency Savings, however, the Cabinet Office did not state any targets for the savings achieved by functions.23 However, as part of our inquiry into Tackling fraud and corruption again Type: conclusion | Number: 17 | Response status: accepted Government response: In the 2021 Spending Review, HM Treasury set multi-year budgets for departments, encouraging them to achieve savings of approximately 5% on their “day-to-day” budgets by 2024–25. The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation [4a]. Target implementation dat