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  1. Cabinet Office 2023-24

    Overview Departmental overview

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    The Cabinet Office spends approximately £1 billion each year. This report summarises insights from our examinations of the Cabinet Office.

  2. Government cyber resilience

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    The cyber threat to UK government is severe; government must act now to protect its own operations and key public services.

  3. Maintaining public service facilities

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    The public spending watchdog has estimated that the government’s maintenance backlog is at least £49 billion.

  4. Managing conflicts of interest: value for money

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    Gaps in how public bodies manage conflicts of interest among staff pose a risk to government’s ability to perform its functions objectively.

  5. Non-executive appointments

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    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.

  6. Cabinet Office 2022-23

    Overview Departmental overview

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    Cabinet Office oversees how departments implement Cabinet decisions. It spends approximately £1 billion each year.

  7. Cabinet Office functional savings

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    The Cabinet Office reports efficiency savings across shared government functions, but they could implement a more robust approach.

  8. Competition in public procurement: lessons learned

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    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.

  9. Departmental Overview 2021-22: Cabinet Office

    Overview Departmental overview

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    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.

  10. Investigation into the performance of UK Security Vetting

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    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.

  11. Government Shared Services

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    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.