Ministers: Codes of Practice
(asked on 20th May 2020) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many written instructions as described in section 5.5 of the Ministerial Code have been issued by Ministers in each year since 2010; for what reason each instruction was issued; and in which Department they were issued.
Ministerial Directions are published on gov.uk. As set out in paragraph 3.4.5. of “Managing Public Money”,[1] it is the responsibility of the relevant accounting officer to arrange for the existence of the direction to be published, no later than in the next report and accounts, unless the matter must be kept confidential.
There have been 27 Ministerial Directions published since April 2011, set out in the table attached. Prior to this date, publication was not required.
Date | Department | Direction | Reason(s) | Links |
January 2015 | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills | Hatfield Colliery Partnership Ltd | Value for money | |
February 2015 | Department for Transport | Northern and TransPennine Express franchises 2015: invitations to tender | Value for money | |
March 2015 | Department for Transport | Manston Airport: procuring consultants for independent review | Value for Money | |
June 2015 | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills | Royal Mail Employee Shares (1) | Value for money | |
June 2015 | Cabinet Office and Duchy of Lancaster | Kids Company | Value for money | |
June 2015 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Flood reinsurance scheme | Value for money | |
October 2015 | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills | Royal Mail Employee Shares (2) | Value for money | |
October 2015 | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills | Redcar Steelworks | Value for money | |
May 2016 | Department for Transport | London Garden Bridge | Value for money | |
July 2016 | Cabinet Office | Special Advisers’ Pay | Value for money | |
January 2018 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | European Union exit costs | Propriety | |
February 2018 | Department for Transport | European Union exit preparations | Propriety | |
March 2018 | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | Local government overpayment | Propriety | |
March 2018 | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | European Union exit preparations – market surveillance | Propriety | |
March 2018 | Department for International Trade | Spend before Royal Assent on EU Exit costs | Propriety | |
May 2018 | Department for Education | T Levels delivery time-table | Feasibility | |
June 2018 | UK Export Finance | Support for export of Typhoon aircraft to Qatar | Value for money | |
April 2019 | UK Export Finance | Increased cover for Iraq | Regularity and value for money | |
May 2019 | Ministry of Justice | Financial assistance for subcontractors affected by the collapse of Working Links | Value for money | |
May 2019 | Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government | Remediation of private sector residential buildings with unsafe ACM cladding | Value for money | |
July 2019 | Home Office | Windrush Compensation Scheme | Regularity and Propriety | |
November 2019 | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | Continuation of Official Receiver’s Indemnity | Value for money | |
November 2019 | National Health Service | NHS Pension tax charges | Regularity and Priority | |
March 2020 | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | (Coronavirus (COVID-19) Support Fund for Retail, hospitality and Leisure Business | Value for Money Feasibility | |
March 2020 | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | Coronavirus COVID-19 the Small Grants Fund | Value for Money Feasibility | |
March 2020 | Department for Health and Social Care | Coronavirus (Covid-19): Ministerial direction on spend. | Regularity | |
May 2020 | Ministry of Communities and Local Government | Grant for unsafe cladding | Value for Money |
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/managing-public-money