Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Written Statement of 6 February 2017, HCWS458, whether his Department will publish a social economic distributional analysis of the cost savings from the Cabinet Office in the last financial year.

The Government, announced savings and benefits totalling £3.3 billion in 2015/16 on 3^rd February 2017, building on total savings of £52billion during the last parliament. A detailed breakdown of these savings and benefits was published alongside a technical note, including the individual methodologies from each of the savings workstreams featured in this announcement. Independent analysis of the savings and benefits by the Government Internal Audit Agency is provided in the Savings Validation Report, also published at the same time as the announcement.

These savings and benefits were realised in government Departments, with support, expertise and assurance from Cabinet Office Functions; Commercial, Property, Digital, and Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants.

This announcement is part of the Government’s continued drive to embed greater efficiency in the way the government does business. The announcement includes £1.2billion of operational savings from commercial activities and optimising the government’s property portfolio.