2007 Comprehensive Spending Review
On 19 July 2005 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government intends to launch a second Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) reporting in 2007, to identify what further investments and reforms are needed to equip the UK for the global challenges of the decade ahead.
A decade on from the first CSR, the 2007 CSR will represent a long-term and fundamental review of government expenditure. It will cover departmental allocations for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11, with allocations for 2007-08 held to the agreed figures already announced at the 2004 Spending Review.
To provide a rigorous analytical framework for these departmental allocations, the Government will be taking forward a programme of work during 2006 involving:
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an assessment of what the sustained increases in spending and reforms to public service delivery have achieved since the first CSR, to inform the setting of new objectives for the decade ahead;
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an examination of the key long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade – including demographic and socio-economic change, globalisation, climate and environmental change, global insecurity and technological change – together with an assessment of how public services will need to respond;
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to release the resources needed to address these challenges, and to continue to secure maximum value for money from public spending over the CSR period, a set of zero-based reviews of departments’ baseline expenditure to assess its effectiveness in delivering the Government’s long-term objectives; together with
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further development of the efficiency programme, building on the crosscutting areas identified in the Gershon Review, to embed and extend ongoing efficiency savings into departmental expenditure planning.
Internal links
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05/12/05 PDF file of Chapter 6 of the Pre-Budget Report , which sets out further details of the CSR
