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  4. Social Fund Account 2009-10

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    The C&AG has qualified the Social Fund Account for the seventh consecutive year. The account has been qualified because of material levels of error in discretionary awards, and in Funeral Expense Payments. He has also qualified, for the first time, his opinion on Sure Start Maternity Grants.

  7. Department for Work and Pensions: Resource Accounts 2009-10

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified the 2009-10 accounts of the DWP, which have been qualified every year since 1988-89, because of the material level of fraud and error in expenditure on state benefits.

  15. HM Revenue and Customs 2008-09 Accounts: The Comptroller and Auditor General’s Standard Report

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    The economic downturn has been largely responsible for a £21.7 billion reduction in taxes and duties collected by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in 2008-9, according to a report released today by the National Audit Office. Income Tax and National Insurance contributions fell by £5.7 billion; revenue from VAT fell by £6.4 billion (partly reflecting […]

  16. C&AG report on the qualification of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s accounts

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified the accounts of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) because the EHRC re-engaged, without Treasury authority, seven former senior employees of the former Commission for Racial Equality who had left that body under a voluntary early severance scheme. The EHRC, established in April 2006 and operational from […]

  17. Report of the C&AG on the Department for Work and Pensions Resource Accounts 2008-09

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    The head of the National Audit Office, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has today qualified the accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions for the 20th consecutive year.  The accounts have been qualified because of the material level of fraud and error in expenditure on state benefits, except for State Pension which has a […]

  18. Report of the C&AG on the 2008-09 Resource Accounts of the Ministry of Defence

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    The National Audit Office has identified errors in specialist pay, allowances and expenses paid to the Armed Forces via their Payroll and Human Resources system, as well as the inadequacy of evidence to support certain fixed assets and stock balances in the financial statements.  For this reason, the Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his […]

  19. HM Treasury Resource Accounts 2008-09: Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General to the House of Commons

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General, the head of the National Audit Office, today reported to Parliament that he has qualified his audit opinion on HM Treasury’s Resource Accounts for 2008-09.  This was because, in that year, HM Treasury incurred expenditure of some £24 billion more than Parliament had authorized. This arose because of the need […]