Cabinet Office and HM Treasury have not ensured that functions have fully reported the efficiencies they achieve. Overall, government expects departments to make efficiency savings equivalent to 5% of their day-to-day budgets by 2024– 25, and each department has its own efficiency target. Currently, functions do not report all the savings they produce, and not all functions report their savings. There are no targets reported in the Government Efficiency Savings report Cabinet Office publishes...

Cabinet Office and HM Treasury have not ensured that functions have fully reported the efficiencies they achieve. Overall, government expects departments to make efficiency savings equivalent to 5% of their day-to-day budgets by 2024– 25, and each department has its own efficiency target. Currently, functions do not report all the savings they produce, and not all functions report their savings. There are no targets reported in the Government Efficiency Savings report Cabinet Office publishes, although they are set, for example, for the counter fraud function. Without clear targets for most functions there is little incentive for them to repo Type: recommendation | Number: 4 | Response status: accepted Government response: The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. savings target set, publishing this in the Spring 2025 efficiency and savings publication after they have been audited by the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAF). The Cabinet Office will use the new tar