Letter from the Permanent Secretary, HM
Treasury to the Chairman
Thank you for your letter of 5 October.
The Comprehensive Spending Review will see publication
of all Departmental Strategic Objectives (DSOs), with supporting
information including indicators to be published by departments
later in the year. This should allow more time for the concerns
of your Committee to be considered. It also provides an opportunity
for you to come back with any further thoughts, since the timetable
I gave you in my letter of 25 September was inevitably truncated.
The points you raise are wide ranging and cover
a number of important issues that the Government will need to
examine. We will give each of them careful consideration and I
will provide a substantive reply as soon as possible. Given preparations
for the Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review, it
will not be possible for me to reply in detail to your letter
until later this month. Publication of our correspondence is clearly
a matter for you and the Committee but you may want to hold off
publication until my substantive reply.
Thank you for your continued interest in and
contribution to our DSOs.
8 October 2007
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