Guidance

The Green Book: Templates and support material

Green Book and Business Case tools and templates for practitioners and reviewers.

From:
HM Treasury
Published
16 November 2020
Last updated
30 March 2022 — See all updates

Documents

Checklist for assessing business cases – updated 2022

PDF, 73.3 KB, 2 pages

A short 'plain English' guide for assessing business cases

PDF, 131 KB, 9 pages

Appraisal summary tables – updated 2022

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 88.8 KB

Introduction to templates for Business Cases

ODT, 9.67 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Template for medium-cost risk Business Justification

MS Word Document, 44.7 KB

Template Financial Annex 1 – all Business Justification Cases

ODS, 12.8 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Template for Full Business Case

ODT, 18.1 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Template for low cost and risk Business Justification Case

ODT, 24.5 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Template for Outline Business Case

ODT, 22.2 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Template for Programme Business Case

ODT, 24.1 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Template for Strategic Outline Case

ODT, 21.3 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Green Book Supplementary Guidance: Discount Factors

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 55.6 KB

Details

These tools and templates have been designed to support practitioners and business case reviewers in accordance with the Green Book and Business Case Guidance.

Published 16 November 2020
Last updated 30 March 2022 + show all updates

  1. Checklist for assessing business cases and Appraisal summary tables updated

  2. First published.