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<p>Ministerial Directions are published on gov.uk. As set out in paragraph 3.4.5.
of “Managing Public Money”,[1] it is the responsibility of the relevant accounting
officer to arrange for the existence of the direction to be published, no later than
in the next report and accounts, unless the matter must be kept confidential.</p><p>There
have been 27 Ministerial Directions published since April 2011, set out in the table
attached. Prior to this date, publication was not required.</p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Department
</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Direction</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Reason(s)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Links</strong></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>January
2015</p></td><td><p>Department for Business, Innovation and Skills</p></td><td><p>Hatfield
Colliery Partnership Ltd</p></td><td><p>Value for money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/439403/Request_for_ministerial_direction_BIS_Permanent_Secretary_writes_to_the_Secretary_of_State_for_Business__Innovation_and_Skills.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/439405/Secretary_of_State_Direction_to_Permanent_Secretary_on_Hatfield.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>Department
for Transport</p></td><td><p>Northern and TransPennine Express franchises 2015: invitations
to tender</p></td><td><p>Value for money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/407753/dft-permanent-secretary-to-sos.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/407780/dft-sos-to-permanent-secretary.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>Department
for Transport</p></td><td><p>Manston Airport: procuring consultants for independent
review</p></td><td><p>Value for Money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/685011/manston-airport-permsec-sofs-letter.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/437845/manston-airport-response.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>Department
for Business, Innovation and Skills</p></td><td><p>Royal Mail Employee Shares (1)</p></td><td><p>Value
for money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/435489/Martin_Donnelly_to_Sajid_Javid_-_Royal_Mail_Employee_Shares.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/435499/Sajid_Javid_to_Martin_Donnelly_-_Royal_Mail_Employee_Shares.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>Cabinet
Office and Duchy of Lancaster</p></td><td><p>Kids Company</p></td><td><p>Value for
money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445933/20150626_Request_for_Ministerial_Direction_-_RH_to_OL_and_MH.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445935/Kids_Company_OL_MH_Final_290615.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</p></td><td><p>Flood reinsurance scheme</p></td><td><p>Value
for money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440646/flood-re-letter-to-sos-from-b-hill.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440647/flood-re-letter-from-sos-to-b-hill.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2015</p></td><td><p>Department
for Business, Innovation and Skills</p></td><td><p>Royal Mail Employee Shares (2)</p></td><td><p>Value
for money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/467561/15_10_13_Letter_out_from_MD_to_SoS_Royal_Mail_Employee_Shares.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/467563/SoS_to_MD_-_RM_share_allocation_-_October_2015.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2015</p></td><td><p>Department
for Business, Innovation and Skills</p></td><td><p>Redcar Steelworks</p></td><td><p>Value
for money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/472030/ssi-apprentices-request-for-ministerial-direction.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/472032/ssi-apprentices-confirmation-of-ministerial-direction.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2016</p></td><td><p>Department
for Transport</p></td><td><p>London Garden Bridge</p></td><td><p>Value for money</p></td><td><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/558980/garden-bridge-letter-from-dft-permanent-secretary-to-the-secretary-of-state-for-transport.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/558981/garden-bridge-letter-from-the-secretary-of-state-for-transport-to-the-dft-permanent-secretary.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2016</p></td><td><p>Cabinet
Office</p></td><td><p>Special Advisers’ Pay</p></td><td><p>Value for money</p></td><td><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/537975/160712_Chief_Exec_to_PPS_PM_Request_for_Ministerial_Direction.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/537976/2371_001.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2018</p></td><td><p>Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</p></td><td><p>European Union exit costs</p></td><td><p>Propriety</p></td><td><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/674920/eu-exit-ministerial-direction-letter-CMtoSoS-180118.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/674921/eu-exit-ministerial-direction-letter-SoStoCM-180118.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2018</p></td><td><p>Department
for Transport</p></td><td><p>European Union exit preparations</p></td><td><p>Propriety</p></td><td><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/711091/letter1-eu-exit-direction.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/711092/letter2-eu-exit-direction.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>Ministry
of Housing, Communities and Local Government</p></td><td><p>Local government overpayment</p></td><td><p>Propriety</p></td><td><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/692034/Local_Government_Overpayment_letter.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/692007/180320_SoS_Letter.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>Department
for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy</p></td><td><p>European Union exit
preparations – market surveillance</p></td><td><p>Propriety</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/691961/Letter_1_-_Permanent_Secretary_to_SoS_-_Market_Surveillance.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/691962/Letter_2_-_SoS_to_Permanent_Secretary_-_Market_Surveillance.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>Department
for International Trade</p></td><td><p>Spend before Royal Assent on EU Exit costs</p></td><td><p>Propriety</p></td><td><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/696968/Letter_1_from_the_DIT_Permanent_Secretary_to_the_DIT_Secretary_of_State_regarding_spend_before_Royal_Assent.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/696969/Letter_2_from_the_DIT_Secretary_of_State_to_the_DIT_Permanent_Secretary_regarding_spend_before_Royal_Assent.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2018</p></td><td><p>Department
for Education</p></td><td><p>T Levels delivery time-table</p></td><td><p>Feasibility</p></td><td><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/710831/180517_Request_for_Ministerial_Direction_-_T-Levels.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/710832/T_Level_timetable_direction_-_SoS_to_Permanent_Secretary_-_24_May_2018.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2018</p></td><td><p>UK
Export Finance</p></td><td><p>Support for export of Typhoon aircraft to Qatar</p></td><td><p>Value
for money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/741418/Letter_from_UKEF_accounting_officer_to_DIT_Secretary_of_State_requesting_ministerial_direction_on_export_of_Typhoon_aircraft_and_associated_equipment__and_services__to_Qatar.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/741417/Letter_from_DIT_Secretary_of_State_to_UKEF_accounting_officer_confirming_ministerial_direction_on_export_of_Typhoon_aircraft_and_associated_equipment__and_services__to_Qatar.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2019</p></td><td><p>UK
Export Finance</p></td><td><p>Increased cover for Iraq</p></td><td><p>Regularity and
value for money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/795779/Letter_from_UKEF_AO_to_DIT_Secretary_of_State_Iraq.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/795780/Letter_from_DIT_Secretary_of_State_to_UKEF_AO_Iraq.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2019</p></td><td><p>Ministry
of Justice</p></td><td><p>Financial assistance for subcontractors affected by the
collapse of Working Links</p></td><td><p>Value for money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/800528/richard-heaton-letter-to-secretary-state-working-links.PDF"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/800529/sos-letter-to-richard-heaton-working-links.PDF"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2019</p></td><td><p>Ministry
of Housing, Communities & Local Government</p></td><td><p>Remediation of private
sector residential buildings with unsafe ACM cladding</p></td><td><p>Value for money</p></td><td><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/800820/MD_to_SoS_Letter_Private_Sector_Remediation.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/800819/SofS_to_Melanie_Dawes.pdf"
target="_blank">Min Direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2019</p></td><td><p>Home
Office</p></td><td><p>Windrush Compensation Scheme</p></td><td><p>Regularity and Propriety</p></td><td><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-from-the-permanent-secretary-to-the-home-secretary"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-from-the-home-secretary-to-the-permanent-secretary"
target="_blank">Min Direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2019</p></td><td><p>Department
for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy</p></td><td><p>Continuation of Official
Receiver’s Indemnity</p></td><td><p>Value for money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/881695/british-steel-ltd-20191111-perm-sec-memo-to-sos.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/881693/british-steel-ltd-20191111-letter-from-sos-to-perm-sec.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction </a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2019</p></td><td><p>National
Health Service</p></td><td><p>NHS Pension tax charges</p></td><td><p>Regularity and
Priority</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/847924/pensions-letter-simon-stevens-to-matt-hancock.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/847925/matt-hancock-pensions-directions-letter-nov-2019.pdf"
target="_blank">Min direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2020</p></td><td><p>Department
for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy</p></td><td><p>(Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Support Fund for Retail, hospitality and Leisure Business</p></td><td><p>Value for
Money Feasibility</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/881787/covid19-retail-hospitality-leisure-tourism-support-20200323-request-for-ministerial-direction.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/881729/covid19-retail-hospitality-leisure-tourism-support-20200323-ministerial-direction.pdf"
target="_blank">Ministerial Direction </a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2020</p></td><td><p>Department
for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy</p></td><td><p>Coronavirus COVID-19 the
Small Grants Fund</p></td><td><p>Value for Money Feasibility</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/881731/covid19-small-business-grants-fund-request-for-ministerial-direction-20200323.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/881732/covid19-small-business-grants-fund-ministerial-direction-20200323.pdf"
target="_blank">Ministerial Direction </a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2020</p></td><td><p>Department
for Health and Social Care</p></td><td><p>Coronavirus (Covid-19): Ministerial direction
on spend.</p></td><td><p>Regularity</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/876881/20200328-ao-direction.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request </a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/876882/29032020-sofs-to-perm-sec-ministerial-direction.pdf"
target="_blank">Ministerial Direction</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2020</p></td><td><p>Ministry
of Communities and Local Government</p></td><td><p>Grant for unsafe cladding</p></td><td><p>Value
for Money</p></td><td><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887328/Jeremy_Pocklington_-_SoS_non-ACM_Direction_Letter.pdf"
target="_blank">AO request</a> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887329/SofS_Perm_Sec_direction_-_non_ACM_fund.pdf"
target="_blank">Ministerial Direction</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>
</p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/managing-public-money</p>
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