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Business and industry

Government comes into contact with business on a daily basis - in areas ranging from its work as a regulator and collector of taxes, and in its duties to providers of business support, and in some instances as a major shareholder.

The National Audit Office examines and scrutinises how well government bodies interact and ultimately assist with business and industry in the UK. The work of the current UK Trade & Investment and the former Department of Trade and Industry are both featured here.

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Advice, guidance and tools

In addition to formal reports to Parliament, we also produce a range of other outputs from our financial audit and VFM work. Examples include:

Departmental Overview: A summary of the NAO's work on the Department for Business Innovation and Skills 2010-2011

September 2011

This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we have produced covering our work on each major government department.

Departmental Overview 2010-2011