Sixty-Eighth Report - Local authority administered COVID support schemes in England
Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee
HC 1234
6 September 2023
Government response
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Sixty-eighth report from Session 2022-23 · published 18 Nov 2023
Recommendations & Conclusions
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Conclusion
Deferred
Early grant schemes proceeded without predicted impact or standard business cases.
Conclusion
The requests made by BEIS officials for Ministerial Directions to proceed with the early grants schemes made reference to the Department’s inability to predict their impact in advance or construct a business case to normal standards. In particular, they referred …
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Government Response Summary
The government will publish the Ipsos evaluation report in late November 2023 and will subsequently write to the Committee to set out its conclusions from the evaluation, deferring the detailing of lessons learned until after the report's release.
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