Policy paper

Cabinet Office controls: version 5

This policy summary outlines the objectives, benefits, scope, and the responsibilities of your organisation when using the Cabinet Office spend controls.

From:
Cabinet Office
Published
30 April 2018
Last updated
26 April 2021 — See all updates
This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

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This guidance has been superseded by V6 spend controls guidance

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Cabinet Office controls policy: version 5

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The Cabinet Office controls help government organisations to reduce wasteful expenditure. Version 5 introduces new controls for commercial and also digital and technology expenditure.

In this guidance, we refer to the Cabinet Office Central Commercial Teams, which are part of the Government Commercial Function (GCF). The Cabinet Office Central Commercial Teams support the Government Chief Commercial Officer to deliver cross-government initiatives.

GDS refers to the Government Digital Service.

Updates to this page

Published 30 April 2018
Last updated 26 April 2021 + show all updates

  1. Removed link to exempt bodies as now out of date.

  2. Edited section 1, removing the mention of retrospective approval, and section 6 - Breaches of spend controls, with revised wording reflecting the latest guidance.

  3. First published.

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