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
Cabinet Office 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
Auditing Behaviour Change
September 2011
This guide provides the NAO’s emerging thinking on what a value
for money assessment of a behaviour change programme may focus
on.
Auditing Behaviour Change
House of Commons Speaker's Committee report - Reports
by the Comptroller and Auditor General
March 2010
This link opens a report on the pages of the House of Commons
Speakers Committee.
Reports by the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Committee's report presents two pieces of work by the
National Audit Office.
- The Electoral Commission's spending to support the running of
elections
- The Local Government Boundary Commission for England: 2011-12
to 2015-16 corporate plan.
A framework for managing staff costs in a period of spending
reduction
August 2010
This paper sets out a framework for effective management of
staff costs in a challenging environment of cost
reduction in public services. It builds on the high level
principles set out in the NAO’s short guide to structured cost
reduction.
A framework for managing staff costs in a
period of spending reduction
Testing CSR07 value for money savings
December 2009
During CSR07 the National Audit Office is carrying out detailed
reviews of some 12 departments. These departments are responsible
for delivering 98 per cent of the £35 billion target. Our reports,
which will be published and laid before Parliament, will look
at:
- the department's governance arrangements, and
- a sample of the savings reported in the department’s annual
reports or autumn performance report.
The first two reports were published in December 2009:
Independent Reviews of reported CSR07
Value for Money savings
The National Audit Office has produced additional guidance for
departments on the management of their VFM programmes and reporting
savings.
We also report to Parliament on departments' financial
management and on Departments’ systems for measuring performance
against their Public Service Agreement targets (PSAs).
Testing CSR07 value for money
savings
Consultancy Assessment Toolkit
The Consultancy Toolkit provides a framework for reviewing the
extent to which an organisation is achieving value for money from
its use of consultants. It is aimed at procurement or commercial
teams, customers/buyers of consultants, or audit staff. It can be
applied to the use of consultants department-wide, or at a
project-level. It is designed to diagnose areas of weakness and
raise awareness of where improvements can be made.
Accessibility note
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language to provide its interactive features and cookies to keep
track of your answers. If you are using a browser that doesn't
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operate correctly.
We have produced an alternative to the interactive pages in the
form of a PDF format printable document.