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Details of Board and senior staff remuneration, expenses and
hospitality
Senior staff remuneration
In the spirit of transparency the NAO provides details of the
salaries of all our senior staff.
Senior staff remuneration (Excel -
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Travel and Hospitality Expenditure
Introduction
The National Audit Office has decided to make a voluntary
disclosure of the expenditure incurred from NAO funds on travel and
subsistence and the provision and receipt of hospitality by the
C&AG and the Senior Management Board of the Office.
Travel expenses
The international travel undertaken by the C&AG and other
senior staff is in connection with our portfolio of international
work. This takes different forms:
- assistance to emerging democracies - technical co-operation
projects to develop robust public audit systems, funded by, for
example, the European Union;
- international development projects aimed at improving financial
management practices in the developing world where sound governance
is a pre-requisite of securing international development funds from
the World Bank and other organisations. This work is funded by
international donors;
- the audit of international bodies where we compete with other
state audit offices for the audit bodies such as the World
Meteorological Office and the World Food Programme. This work is
funded by the organisations themselves;
- in connection with reports to Parliament where fact finding
missions to understand overseas comparators and best practice are
valuable;
- accompanying and supporting Members of the Committee of Public
Accounts on visits to their opposite numbers in other countries and
international organisations; and
- international meetings and bilateral visits where the C&AG
and other senior staff are invited by officials and politicians to
speak about public audit in the UK, or as members of the
organisation of state audit institutions which exists to promote
best practice in public audit worldwide.
Within the UK details have been provided for all visits outside
London. We have an office in Newcastle and as auditors of all
central government our client base is widely distributed. UK travel
costs are incurred in connection with specific audits or value for
money investigations, in pursuance of other professional
relationships for example with the accounting profession, or in
connection with training and development activity.
Hospitality
Domestic hospitality is provided or accepted where there is an
opportunity to demonstrate to members of industry, commerce, the
profession and public service, the value of our work in improving
public services, especially where we are the auditors of programmes
to which they are contributing. It is important to build a strong
network of external contacts to support our audits and the
development of our work more generally. Details are provided of all
hospitality costs charged to the Office by the C&AG and senior
staff and of all hospitality they have received.
International hospitality is provided to delegations from
overseas audit institutions who have an interest in the UK approach
to public audit or who have commissioned work from us. In addition,
the NAO hosts a number of conferences aimed at increasing the take
up of recommendations we make in the course of our work and at
spreading good practice. We have not included the costs of
hospitality provided in connection with such events.
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