The Treasury and Whitehall : Oxford University Press : 9780198277842 : 0198277849 : 02 Nov 1995 : The Treasury is at the heart of British Government, responsible for deciding how much to spend and on what. Both the institution and the public expenditure process are the focus of The Treasury and Whitehall, a tour de force of contemporary policy analysis. Based on research undertaken with the co-operation of the Treasury and Whitehall departments, it shows how the key decisions of planning, allocating, and controlling public expenditure are made. With unique access to Treasury Expenditure Controllers and senior financial officials in the main spending departments, the book provides a detailed and authoritative account of the roles, relationships, and inter-actions of the key players in the Whitehall Expenditure Community as they confront each other in the annual rituals of the Expenditure Survey. Thain and Wright explain how the rules of the expenditure game were re-drawn in the 1980s in