Her Majesty's Treasury (
HM Treasury), sometimes referred to as
the Exchequer, or more informally
the Treasury, is the
United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing the British government's
public finance policy and
economic policy. The Treasury maintains OSCAR, the replacement for COINS (
Combined Online Information System), which contains a detailed analysis of departmental spending under thousands of category headings. and from which the Whole of Government Accounts are now produced.