“What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure cross-departmental planning in the development of the Spending Review.”
Asked by
Dr Peter Prinsley
Answering Minister
the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer from Hansard
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Darren Jones)
The Treasury has reformed the spending review process to ensure that it facilitates genuine collaboration across Departments. As part of this spending review, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and I have met Secretaries of State multilaterally in mission clusters, which have brought together Departments to agree cross-departmental priorities, increase transparency, reduce duplication and align spending with mission delivery across Whitehall, while learning every possible lesson from the failure of the Conservatives to ensure that it is never repeated ever again.