Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish each of the zero-based Departmental reviews undertaken by her Department.

Every department has undertaken a line-by-line review of its spending, committing to deliver at least 5% efficiencies and savings by the end of this Spending Review period. These efficiencies and savings are integral to department’s settlements. As part of the Spending Review, the OVFM have worked with departments to agree efficiency plans showing how almost £14bn of efficiencies will be delivered by 2028-29. These efficiencies contribute to the 5% and are set out in the Spending Review 2025 document.

These efficiencies and savings will now be delivered by departments as they plan and deliver their budgets for the years covered by the spending review.