National Audit Office Annual Report 2009

Annual Report Highlights

During this year our work, together with that of the Committee of Public Accounts, has led to savings and other efficiency gains for the taxpayer of £768 million; more than ten times the annual cost of running the office.

Our key results and achievements in 2008-09 included:

• auditing 448 accounts and completing the audit of the opening balance sheets under IFRS conversion;
• delivering 60 major reports to Parliament, covering topics as diverse as speeding up planning permissions, progress in improving adult literacy and numeracy, prison procurement, reducing harm from alcohol and the nationalisation of Northern Rock
• expanding our support to parliamentary select committees in addition to our work for the Committee of Public Accounts
• contributing to improving governance and accountability in some 35 developing countries and other nations; and
• securing £768 million of financial impact, more than £10 for every £1 spent running the National Audit Office