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  3. Comptroller and Auditor General’s Standard Report on the Accounts of the Inland Revenue 2004-05

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the NAO, today published a report on the Inland Revenue’s accounts for the year 2004-2005. The Inland Revenue collected some £256.9 billion in the year. Sir John confirmed that overall the Inland Revenue continued to secure an effective check over the assessment, collection and allocation of tax during the year. […]

  4. Comptroller and Auditor General’s Standard Report on the Accounts of HM Customs and Excise 2004-05

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported the results of his examination of HM Customs’ systems for the assessment, collection and allocation of tax revenue during the year ending 31 March 2005. In 2004-05 Customs collected £120.7 billion (net) in taxes and duties. Sir John’s report focuses on Customs’ work to […]

  9. Complying with regulation – business perceptions survey 2009

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    A survey of businesses by the National Audit Office found that, whilst businesses are reporting that individual aspects of complying with regulation have become less burdensome over the last year, and there has been some improvement in overall business perceptions of regulation since 2007, very few regard complying with regulation as having become easier or […]

  11. Compliance checklist

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    Our compliance checklist should help Departments and other bodies to assess where they have complied with and adhered to”Corporate Governance in Central Government Departments: Code of Good Practice 2011 (the Code)”, and to identify areas of non-compliance that need to be explained and described in their annual governance statement.

  12. Completing Crossrail

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    This report examines the causes of the cost increases and delays to the Crossrail programme.

  14. Compensating Victims of Violent Crime

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported that the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority’s productivity and processes compared well when benchmarked against three private sector insurance companies. The examination highlighted opportunities for the Authority to make improvements, and the report sets out 23 recommendations aimed at enhancing the quality of service provided […]

  15. Compensating victims of violent crime

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    The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) is the non-departmental public body which pays statutory financial compensation to victims of violent crime. Its performance has declined since the National Audit Office last reported on it in 2000 and it has not consistently met its targets over that period. In 2006, CICA initiated a major programme of […]

  17. Companies in Government

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    Since 2010 there has been an increase in the number of companies in government at the same time as a reduction in the number of public bodies which raises issues of transparency, accountability, governance and review.

  19. Community Legal Service: the introduction of contracting

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    The introduction of new arrangements in 2000 for the funding of civil legal aid has led to better scrutiny by the Legal Services Commission of the work of its suppliers and a greater degree of control over the civil legal aid budget, according to Sir John Bourn, Head of the National Audit Office. As the […]