The Cabinet Office told us that while it thought that the reported savings figures were “pretty robust”, it recognised that the figures could be more comprehensive and more consistent in the measurement of savings. The Cabinet Office recognised the need for consistent methodologies for calculating the savings achieved by functions, but asserted that these did not need to be identical because “the ways in which we actually achieve the savings across the different functions are genuinely differ...

The Cabinet Office told us that while it thought that the reported savings figures were “pretty robust”, it recognised that the figures could be more comprehensive and more consistent in the measurement of savings. The Cabinet Office recognised the need for consistent methodologies for calculating the savings achieved by functions, but asserted that these did not need to be identical because “the ways in which we actually achieve the savings across the different functions are genuinely different”. When asked which functions were making the most efficiencies, the Cabinet Office told us that the functions provided a lot of value, but that while Type: conclusion | Number: 10 | 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 resp