TRUSTPOLITICS
Written Question·Treasury·UIN 47823

Public Expenditure

Tabled: 24 April 2025
Answered: 2 May 2025

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 31991 on Public Expenditure, what definition her Department uses of (a) a saving and (b) efficiency for the purpose of the 5% target; and whether cancelling program

Answer

Darren Jones
The Government uses the Government Efficiency Framework to distinguish between efficiencies and savings.The cancellation of a programme would classify as a saving.