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The Ministry of Water in a national government publishes its annual budget, contract awards and performance targets on an open website so that citizens, journalists and civil society groups can scrutinise how public money is spent. Which governance principle is the Ministry primarily demonstrating?

The Ministry is demonstrating transparency. By openly publishing its budget, contract awards and performance targets, it allows citizens and other stakeholders to scrutinise public spending and decisions, which is the core meaning of transparency in public sector governance.

  1. ATransparencyCorrect
  2. BProbity
  3. CEfficiency
  4. DSubsidiarity

Explanation

Making information openly available so outsiders can scrutinise decisions and spending is transparency. Probity concerns honesty and integrity in conduct, not publication of information. Efficiency relates to resource use, and subsidiarity relates to the level at which decisions are taken.

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