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Written Question
Government Departments: Accountancy
Monday 2nd November 2015

Asked by: Lord Butler of Brockwell (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many ministerial directions have been issued to accounting officers in the last 10 years, and in which departments.

Answered by Lord O'Neill of Gatley

There have been 27 ministerial directions between 2005 and 2015.


The departments they were issued in were: Department of Trade and Industry; Ministry of Defence; Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; HM Treasury; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Communities and Local Government; Ministry of Justice; Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Department for Transport; and the Cabinet Office.