Managing government borrowing

a. HMT should consider ways to align and extend how it measures progress against the debt management objective, while recognising the inherent challenges. This should include developing further its quantitative and qualitative evidence base to feed into an overall assessment, aligning with performance metrics and monitoring of the DMO and NS&I where appropriate.

c. HMT, working with the OBR, should explore how remit revisions outside regular fiscal events can be supported by quicker, more focused OBR assurance. This assurance should be proportionate, taking account of the event under assessment and the costs to public bodies in producing forecasts.

d [2]. The government should ensure that it has plans to manage skills and capacity risks to its debt management operations. ? The DMO should implement a plan for mitigating the risks of losing key personnel. ? The NS&I should implement a plan for internal skills and capacity, clearly linking this to how it manages major projects and to its plans for contract management as it moves away from a single provider model. ? HMT should review these plans and examine whether the resources needed to deliver the plans are appropriate.

d [3]. The government should ensure that it has plans to manage skills and capacity risks to its debt management operations. ? The DMO should implement a plan for mitigating the risks of losing key personnel. ? The NS&I should implement a plan for internal skills and capacity, clearly linking this to how it manages major projects and to its plans for contract management as it moves away from a single provider model. ? HMT should review these plans and examine whether the resources needed to deliver the plans are appropriate.

b. HMT should periodically review the appropriateness of individual elements of the debt management framework, and how the individual elements work together. It should formally capture lessons from when the framework has responded to testing conditions.

d [1]. The government should ensure that it has plans to manage skills and capacity risks to its debt management operations. ? The DMO should implement a plan for mitigating the risks of losing key personnel. ? The NS&I should implement a plan for internal skills and capacity, clearly linking this to how it manages major projects and to its plans for contract management as it moves away from a single provider model. ? HMT should review these plans and examine whether the resources needed to deliver the plans are appropriate.