France conducted its first comprehensive spending review (called in French "la Révision Générale des Politiques Publiques") in 2008.
The 2002 Spending Review (SR02) set a target for expanding the role of voluntary sector organisations in the provision of public services, anticipating growth by 5% in the period to 2005-06.
The first was that it represented the first test of the capacity of the Spending Review process to plan and deliver a discretionary fiscal consolidation in the UK.
A second noteworthy development in the 2007 CSR was a marked extension in the certainty that the UK system provided to public sector managers about their future budgets.
[10] The Office for Budget Responsibility predicted that the spending review led to a loss of about 490,000 public sector jobs by 2015.
[16] A spending review for the years 2016–17 to 2020-21 was announced by chancellor George Osborne alongside an Autumn Statement on 25 November 2015.
[19] SR21 set departmental resource and capital budgets from 2022-23 to 2024-25 and covered the devolved administrations' block grants for the same period of time.
[22] On 29 July 2024, and after Labour had won the 2024 general election, Chancellor Rachel Reeves launched a new multi-year spending review, noting that the Conservative government had not undertaken a spending review since 2001 (above) and that "unfunded" and "undisclosed" overspending of £21.9bn had created a need to make "a necessary and urgent decision" on government expenditure.
Shadow Chancellor Jeremy Hunt dismissed Reeves' claims as "spurious", and argued that details of all government spending had been released by the Office for Budget Responsibility.