Detailed guide: GDS spend controls pipeline assessment criteria
Email the GDS approvals team if you need to know who the GDS senior technology adviser is for your organisation.You must assess digital and technology spend activities together with your GDS senior...
View ArticleDetailed guide: Set up a spend controls assurance board
Your organisation needs an assurance board to follow version 5 of the commercial and digital and technology spend controls process. This board reviews the assurance decisions that your organisation...
View ArticleDetailed guide: Set up a commercial or digital and technology spend controls...
You can read the definition of pipelines and the qualifying criteria in the spend controls policy summary.Purpose of pipelinesYour organisation must create and maintain pipelines showing future...
View ArticleCollection: Cabinet Office controls
The Cabinet Office is committed to iterating the spend controls process to increase government efficiency and collaboration. Version 5 of the spend controls introduces a pipeline approach to approve...
View ArticleDetailed guide: Digital and technology spend controls (version 5)
To use the digital and technology spend controls process, your organisation must:maintain a pipeline that lists spend on all digital and technology spendassess every line in the pipeline against the...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Cabinet Office controls: version 5
The Cabinet Office controls help government organisations to reduce wasteful expenditure. Version 5 introduces new controls for commercial and also digital and technology expenditure.In this guidance,...
View ArticleDetailed guide: Commercial spend controls (version 5)
Read this guidance to use the commercial spend controls pipeline process within your organisation. If your organisation has not yet transitioned to the pipeline process, you should continue to use the...
View ArticleDetailed guide: Commercial controls: non-pipeline process (version 4)
Updated: Version 4 of the commercial spend controls have also been updated to provide further guidance to departments.Email Commercial Assurance if you have any questions about these controls.Cabinet...
View ArticleDetailed guide: Consultancy spend controls
Updated: Updated to include the new threshold for consultancy spend controls.Email the consultancy team if you have any questions about these controls.Professional services external resources:...
View ArticleDetailed guide: Department contacts for spend controls
Updated: Updated contacts Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)Barrie EdisonThe Cabinet Office (CO)Guy LesterDepartment for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)Donna...
View ArticleNational Statistics: Freedom of Information statistics: annual 2017
Updated: There was an error on Slide 14 of the chart in the 2017 Annual bulletin - 'Most commonly used exemptions'. This has now been corrected.The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI Act) and the...
View ArticleCollection: Freedom of Information statistics
Updated: There was an error on Slide 14 of the chart in the 2017 Annual bulletin - 'Most commonly used exemptions'. This has now been corrected. The data tables and CSV files were...
View ArticleTransparency data: Cabinet Office: Government Procurement Card spend over £500
Updated: Added in March 2018In line with UK government commitments to increase transparency, we publish details of spend over £500 from 1 April 2011. We will continue to publish this data regularly.
View ArticleTransparency data: Cabinet Office: spend data over £25,000
Updated: Added March 2018In line with UK government commitments to increase transparency, we are now publishing details of spend over £25,000 since 1 April 2010 and over £500 from 1 April 2011. We will...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Cabinet Office Twitter policy
The policy outlines how the Cabinet Office manages, uses and reviews its Twitter accounts.Contact details Civil Contingencies Secretariat Cabinet Office 3rd Floor 35 Great Smith Street London SW1P 3BQ...
View ArticlePress release: Governments agree plans to work together on UK frameworks
The ninth Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) met today in 70 Whitehall. The meeting was chaired by the Rt Hon David Lidington MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the...
View ArticleTransparency data: Cabinet Office workforce management data 2017 to 2018
Updated: Data for March 2018 added.Cabinet Office publishes details about headcount and payroll costs for permanent staff and contractors on a monthly basis.It also includes non-consolidated...
View ArticleGuidance: Toolkit for Parliamentarians
Updated: Attachments have been updated.Parliamentarians’ roleParliamentarians have a unique role to play in helping young people bridge the gap between their passion and commitment to different causes...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Business Statements: Office of the Leader of the House of...
The Business Statement sets out the business of the House of Commons for the following week.This takes place every Thursday morning when the House is sitting, usually at 10.30 am. Statements are...
View ArticlePress release: Government calls on technology firms to help tackle the UK’s...
Today Minister for Implementation, Oliver Dowden, will announce the first round of competitions for tech specialists to tackle social challenges at the government’s flagship digital conference, Sprint...
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