This letter provides responses from the National Audit Office to the questions set out in HM Treasury’s consultation paper on the Thematic Review of Non-Investment Asset Valuation for Financial Reporting Purposes.
This briefing is designed to support the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s (the Committee’s) inquiry into food security.
The briefing gives a factual overview of the framework for environmental compliance and enforcement in England.
This is a briefing for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee.
Insights we have drawn from exploratory analysis of data used by the Environment Agency as part of its regulation of storm overflows.
Briefing note to support the APPG for Cycling and Walking’s inquiry into DfT’s forthcoming Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy 2.
In March 2021, the C&AG submitted evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into the Department of Health & Social Care’s White Paper, ‘Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care’. This drew on the National Audit Office’s past body of work to highlight the main risks and opportunities the White Paper presents, both in terms of effective implementation of the proposed reforms and in terms of making progress towards overarching health and social care policy aims.
This memorandum has been prepared to support the Committee of Public Accounts’ inquiry on Equitable Life’s Payment Scheme
The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the nature and purpose of the proposed new funding agency for UK research, the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
To support the inquiry, this briefing draws upon the National Audit Office’s work examining the use made of taxpayers’ money by public bodies. It sets out the basic principles established by HM Treasury governing the creation of new bodies and some of the questions that we regularly ask when assessing whether an organisation is set up to deliver value for money.
This memorandum sets out background information about the Crossrail programme and the current position
Our 2016 memorandum was prepared to inform the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry into the future of Jobcentre Plus (JCP), including the likely effects of planned welfare policy changes on JCP footfall and journey time to jobcentres. In October 2017 we published an associated interactive data model allowing exploration of the time it will take for people to travel to their nearest jobcentre.
This memorandum has been prepared to support the Committee of Public Accounts’ consideration of the Ministry of Defence’s provision of accommodation to its service personnel.
This briefing looks at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (the Commission). It provides information on the Commission’s governance framework, strategy, financial position, performance, and issues and challenges it faces. The briefing has been prepared in response to a request from the Women and Equalities Committee.
This briefing has been prepared to provide Parliament with information about the financial relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU). It is intended to assist scrutiny of the government’s strategy for leaving the EU.
This memorandum has been prepared to support the Environmental Audit Committee to consider the decision taken by Defra in 2010, to withdraw the provisional allocation of PFI credits from seven (out of 18) PFI projects.
This memorandum has been prepared to support the Committee of Public Accounts to consider the approach taken by DCLG in assessing the impacts and value for money arising from aspects of its Housing and Planning Bill.
This briefing on financial management of the EU budget has been prepared for the UK Committee of Public Accounts, drawing exclusively from published material.
A third of major government projects due to deliver in the next five years are rated as in doubt or unachievable unless action is taken to improve delivery. Greater transparency on project performance is required.
In June 2015, the Secretary of State for Transport announced that two large rail electrification schemes would be paused because the rail investment portfolio was costing more and taking longer.
The National Audit Office has prepared this briefing on environmental protection for the Environmental Audit Committee. It is a follow up to the environmental protection briefing which the NAO prepared for the Committee in August 2010, and focusses on the progress made by the government in this area since 2010.