Efficiency in government procurement of common goods and services
Published on:Public sector bodies could avoid £500 million in costs over five years if they improve how they procure common goods and services.
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Government cyber resilience
Winter 2024/25Our report will examine government’s efforts to improve its cyber resilience to meet the challenges of the changing cyber threat landscape.
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A planning and spending framework that enables long-term value for money
Autumn 2024We will draw out lessons from our work to show how improvements to the government’s planning and spending framework would support better value for taxpayers’ money in the long term.
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Managing conflicts of interest
Autumn 2024It is important to manage conflicts of interest effectively. Our latest report on managing propriety in the public sector will look at how conflicts of interest are handled across government.
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Non-executive appointments
Published on:Government is taking longer than it should to appoint non-executive directors (NEDs) to public positions, and these delays can leave gaps on boards, creating risks to governance, and reducing the number of high-quality candidates.
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Cabinet Office 2022-23
Published on:Cabinet Office oversees how departments implement Cabinet decisions. It spends approximately £1 billion each year.
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Civil service workforce: Recruitment, pay and performance management
Published on:Government has opportunities to improve the efficient management of its workforce, including on recruitment, pay and performance management.
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Monitoring and responding to companies in distress: lessons learned
Published on:Our report provides updates on the government’s evolving approach to national resilience and risk management.
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Monitoring and responding to companies in distress: good practice
Published on:Our guide sets out the elements to consider & questions to support good practice and value for money, through real examples from our reports.
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Cabinet Office functional savings
Published on:The Cabinet Office reports efficiency savings across shared government functions, but they could implement a more robust approach.
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Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Published on:The Cabinet Office has published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2022-23, which includes the C&AG’s audit certificate and report.
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Competition in public procurement: lessons learned
Published on:This report examines whether government has mechanisms in place to understand and encourage competition in public procurement, and how government departments can make their use of competition more effective.
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Tackling fraud and corruption against government
Published on:Most public bodies do not know how much fraud they face and cannot demonstrate that they have the correct level of counter fraud resources.
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Digital transformation in government: addressing the barriers to efficiency
Published on:This report assesses how government is trying to address the underlying issues that make digital transformation so difficult to achieve.
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Departmental Overview 2021-22: Cabinet Office
Published on:This guide has been produced to support the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in its examination of the Cabinet Office’s spending and performance.
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Investigation into the performance of UK Security Vetting
Published on:This report looks at how UKSV has performed in providing national security vetting services since 2018; what it is doing to ensure security vetting is completed in a timely way to ensure the continued protection and functioning of government; and what it is doing to modernise and reform.
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Government Shared Services
Published on:The Government has made progress delivering its latest strategy to share back-office services across Whitehall departments in the past year, but remaining barriers will need to be addressed for it to deliver its plans by 2028 and achieve value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
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Improving government data: A guide for senior leaders
Published on:This guide is aimed at accounting officers, chief executives, director
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Managing central government property
Published on:This study examines how the Cabinet Office maintains, oversees and manages central government property.
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Managing cross-border travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published on:This report considers the effectiveness of the UK government’s cross-border travel measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.