Treasury plans pandemic-driven update of spending control bible

Treasury plans pandemic-driven update of spending control bible
Managing Public Money refresh will add guidance on emergency-related risk and more case studies
Cat Little appears before the Public Accounts Committee on 27 May 2021
28 May 2021
The Treasury is planning to overhaul its key spending control guidance for accounting officers to reflect lessons from the coronavirus pandemic and include more case studies to aid decisions.
Cat Little, the department’s director general for public spending, told members of parliament’s Public Accounts Committee the update to
Managing Public Money would include extra information on appetite for risk during emergencies and cross-departmental working.
Managing Public Money exists to help departmental accounting officers ensure ministerial spending decisions represent an appropriate use of taxpayers’ money – and gives them the opportunity to seek written ministerial directions authorising particular spending when there is doubt. The past 15 months has seen a spike in officials seeking such directions.

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