The Cabinet Office is ultimately responsible for the accuracy of the figure for the total amount of savings reports. It co-ordinates, assures and reports the efficiency savings achieved by functions, and provides guidance on what they should report. But the NAO found that the Cabinet Office had not consistently reported the efficiency savings delivered by the functions. The Cabinet Office reports savings from those functions headquartered in the Cabinet Office for the period it is reporting o...

The Cabinet Office is ultimately responsible for the accuracy of the figure for the total amount of savings reports. It co-ordinates, assures and reports the efficiency savings achieved by functions, and provides guidance on what they should report. But the NAO found that the Cabinet Office had not consistently reported the efficiency savings delivered by the functions. The Cabinet Office reports savings from those functions headquartered in the Cabinet Office for the period it is reporting on – which was 10 functions for the 2021–22 report. In its March 2022 report on the savings achieved in 2020–21, the Cabinet Office recognised that the £3 Type: conclusion | Number: 13 | Response status: accepted Government response: 3.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: by December 2025. 3.2 The functions’ respective methodologies for measuring and reporting efficiency savings reflect the diversity of functional activity undertaken in their res