Treasury - Sixth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 14 June 2007.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
2 The evolution of the 2007 Spending Review
The decision to conduct the 2007 Comprehensive
Spending Review
The timing of the outcome of the Review
The early settlements
3 The context
The fiscal rules and the planning assumptions
The overall spending envelope and the capital/current
divide
Overall spending in historical context
The division between Annually Managed Expenditure
and Departmental Expenditure Limits
Fiscal constraints
How real are "real terms"?
Migration and demography
4 The allocation of spending between departments
The Home Office and Department for Constitutional
Affairs settlements
The other early settlements
Prospects for other departments
Conclusions
5 Embedding efficiency
Learning the lessons of the Gershon programme
Setting efficiency targets
The framework for monitoring and reporting
The Civil Service workforce and administration
budgets
6 Public Service Agreements and beyond
The new framework
Conclusions
7 The national debate and the role of Parliament
The role of the House of Commons and its
select committees
Reporting
Parliamentary authorisation
The future of the public expenditure planning
and control system
Conclusions and recommendations
Formal minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of Reports from the Treasury Committee
during the current Parliament
ORAL EVIDENCE (including Memoranda)
30th January 2007
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