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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Public Expenditure

Asked by James WildConservativeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled Answered 18 November 2025UIN 88848

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 61221 on Government Departments: Reviews, how many lines of activity in her Department were considered as part of the zero based review.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

To ensure consistency in approach, cross-government guidance set expectations for the level of granularity each zero based review should consider, recommending that departments review all spending within individual programme expenditure - at a minimum reflecting any lines of spending in excess of £1 million per annum.

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