Guidance
Organisations exempt from spend controls
Check if your organisation is exempt from the Cabinet Office spend controls process.
The following organisations are exempt from the spend controls process:
| Organisations | Terms |
|---|---|
| Aggregator Vehicle PLC | Exempt |
| Commissioner for Irish Lights | Exempt apart from Digital and Technology and Property |
| Electoral Commission | Exempt |
| Financial services compensation scheme | Exempt |
| Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) | Exempt |
| Money Advice Service | Exempt |
| MOD Defence Equipment and Support | Exempt apart from Digital and technology and Property |
| National Audit Office (NAO) | Exempt |
| Network Rail | Exempt |
| Ordnance Survey | Exempt with voluntary compliance |
| Open Water Market (OWML) | Exempt with voluntary compliance for Digital and Technology |
| Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman | Exempt |
| Royal Household | Exempt |
| Submarine Delivery Agency | Exempt from the Consultancy, Learning and Development and External Recruitment |
| UK Asset Resolution | Exempt |
| DH bodies | |
| Central Support Units (CSUs) | Exempt apart from Commercial |
| NHS Property Services Ltd (NHS PS) | Exempt apart from Commercial |
| BEIS bodies | |
| British Business Bank plc (BBB) | Exempt with voluntary compliance |
| Green Investment Bank | Exempt with voluntary compliance |
| DEFRA bodies | |
| Flood Reinsurance Scheme (Flood Re) | Exempt |
| Site Licences | |
| Sellafield | Exempt |
| Magnox North | Exempt |
| Magnox South | Exempt |
| Low-level Waste Repository | Exempt |
| Dounreay Site Restoration | Exempt |
| Research Sites Restoration | Exempt |
| Estates | All of the following estates are exempted from the National Property Control |
| Overseas estates | |
| Other specialist facilities owned, leased and occupied by central departments | |
| Agencies and NDPBs such as museums, power stations and port facilities | |
| Civil engineering infrastructure owned, leased and used by central departments | |
| Agencies and NDPBs such as flood defences, roads, canals and railways | |
| Scientific and communication sites, including radio masts, radar stations, boreholes, instrument monitoring stations | |
| Defra Rural Estate | |
| EH heritage estate | |
| Historic Royal Palaces | |
| Military Rural Training Estate and Forces personnel/family accommodation | |
| Devolved assemblies | |
| The Crown Estate | |
| Parliament’s estate | |
| Residential lettings | |
| British Transport Police operational estate – to include detention cells and office | |
| Sites at train stations | |
| Marine and Coastguard Agency operational estate – to include helicopter sites | |
| Coastguard rescue stations, stores, launch sites for rescue vehicles | |
| Communications networks | |
| Driving Standards Agency operational estate – to include driving test centres | |
| Multi-purpose test centres | |
| Vehicle and Operators Services Agency operational estate – to include weighbridge sites, enforcement compounds, testing sites | |
| Compulsory purchase orders (there are 100+ per annum) and much of the court estate with the exception of new builds |
Published 9 April 2014