Comprehensive Spending Review
The Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), which concluded in July 1998, involved a thorough review of departmental aims and objectives and a zero-based analysis of each spending programme to find the best way of delivering the Government’s objectives. It was the first time a spending review on that scale had been attempted in the UK.
Follow the links below for the CSR White Paper, Public Service Agreements, Chancellor’s Statement and more.
Associated Documents:
- Modern Public Services for Britain: Investing in Reform: Comprehensive Spending Review: New Public Spending Plans 1999-2002
- Chancellor's Statement
- Index of Press Notices
The following documents are available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website.
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- PDF file of HM Treasury's pocket guide to Modern Services for Britain: Investing in reform
- PDF file of Comprehensive Spending Review: Aims and Objectives