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Cabinet Office accounting officer assessments
Accounting officer assessment summaries for the Cabinet Office programmes and projects.
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Departmental accounting officers must produce an assessment of programmes and projects which form part of the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP).
Projects are assessed against 4 criteria:
- regularity
- propriety
- value for money
- feasibility
It is normal practice for accounting officers to scrutinise significant policy proposals or plans to start or vary major projects, and then assess whether they measure up to the standards set out in managing public money.
From April 2017, the government has committed to make a summary of the key points from these assessments available to Parliament when an accounting officer has agreed an assessment of projects within the GMPP.