Treasury - Seventh Report

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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 26 February 2008.

Contents

Summary

1 Introduction

The Sub-Committee's scrutiny programme

Relevant documents

The approach of this Report

2 The Treasury Group's own resources

Overall expenditure trends

Under-spending and End-Year Flexibility

The Gershon efficiency programme in the Treasury Group

Efficiency in the Treasury Group, 2008-09 to 2010-11

The Royal Mint

Financial reporting

3 The Treasury as a central department

The challenge

Managing the efficiency programme

Financial management in Government

Financial reporting

Financial authorisation and the "line of sight" initiative

4 The work of the Office of Government Commerce

History of the Office

Transforming Government Procurement

The OGC's annual reporting mechanism

OGC Gateway reviews

OGCbuying.solutions

5 The Treasury Group's performance against objectives

Introduction

International objectives and measurement issues

Regional economic growth

Child poverty

The Treasury's new Departmental Strategic Objectives

6 HM Revenue & Customs

Background

Capability Review

HMRC's efficiency programme

Pay and bonuses

HMRC core objectives

Objective I: Tax collection

Objective II: the customer experience

Objective III: Frontier protection

Tax credit administration

Expansion of call centres

HMRC's Departmental Strategic Objectives

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal minutes of the Treasury Sub-Committee

Formal minutes of the Treasury Committee

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of Reports from the Treasury Committee during the current Parliament

Terms of Reference

Oral and Written Evidence

Wednesday 10 October 2007

Wednesday 14 November 2007

Wednesday 5 December 2007

Wednesday 9 January 2008

Written Evidence

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Prepared 7 March 2008