Managing conflicts of interest: value for money
Published on:Gaps in how public bodies manage conflicts of interest among staff pose a risk to government’s ability to perform its functions objectively.
Gaps in how public bodies manage conflicts of interest among staff pose a risk to government’s ability to perform its functions objectively.
Our guide shows how government can help public bodies put in place the right measures to properly manage conflicts of interest – for the benefit of both staff and taxpayers.
In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, championed effective innovation as a way to tackle the ongoing challenge of rising demand for stretched public services.
This report will examine how governance and decision-making worked on a small sample of major projects which the NAO have previously reported on.
Government must reset the HS2 programme successfully to avoid repeating past failures and to maximise value for money.
This guide is for senior finance leaders in government departments and other public bodies. It sets out insights and good practice on monitoring and forecasting for better financial management in government. It is the fourth in a five-part series of guides, which follow the financial management lifecycle. Good financial management is critical in the public […]
Background St Helena island is a self-governing UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic with a population of around 4,250. The Department for International Development (now part of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office – FCDO) provided the St Helena government with £285.5 million to design, build and operate an airport and related infrastructure. It […]
Our guide is for people who deal with whistleblowers, investigate concerns or manage whistleblowing processes in government organisations.
Whistleblowing arrangements in government require further improvement with slow and inconsistent progress being made by departments and other civil service bodies, a new National Audit Office (NAO) report says.
AI presents the government with opportunities to transform public services potentially delivering billions of pounds in productivity savings.
Government has opportunities to improve the efficient management of its workforce, including on recruitment, pay and performance management.
We have drawn on our published work, programme of consultation, and collaboration with officials and stakeholders to provide useful insights.
This guide aims to support policy and delivery professionals responsible for delivering programmes involving more than one department in delivery.
This report draws on insights from our previous work to set out what effective cross-government working looks like and highlights some of the barriers.
Our report examined how projects achieve value to see what lessons there are for other projects. By value, we mean the difference projects make to citizens, service users or the environment.
In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, said government can provide people with better public services despite the challenging fiscal backdrop.
This interactive guide sets out good practice principles for annual reporting with examples from public sector organisations.
The Delivery Environment Complexity Analytic (DECA) is a tool developed by the National Audit Office (NAO) to provide a high level overview of the challenges, complexity and risks to delivery of a project, programme, policy or area of work.
This report uses our experience of auditing programmes to draw together insights to help decision-makers determine whether they should reset a programme and how to increase the chances of a reset succeeding.
The government should use the two-year pause on new construction work at HS2 Euston to develop a design that is affordable, deliverable and value for money, according to a new National Audit Office report.