Cabinet Office and HM Treasury do not have a full picture of the performance of functions. Cabinet Office’s current exercise to quantify functional savings has reported for the last two years, but it does not include all functions. In addition, 6 Cabinet Office functional savings functions deliver different types of savings and each sets its own methodology for tracking and claiming savings. This can make it hard to compare progress between the functions and means that there is a risk that ef...

Cabinet Office and HM Treasury do not have a full picture of the performance of functions. Cabinet Office’s current exercise to quantify functional savings has reported for the last two years, but it does not include all functions. In addition, 6 Cabinet Office functional savings functions deliver different types of savings and each sets its own methodology for tracking and claiming savings. This can make it hard to compare progress between the functions and means that there is a risk that efficiencies are being under reported. One of the barriers to doing this more consistently is access to the necessary data. Government has already committe Type: recommendation | Number: 3 | Response status: accepted Government response: The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. savings reflect the diversity of functional activity undertaken in their respective areas. These methods range from release of cash (commercial), efficiencies baselined against projected scenarios (communic