Care Act first-phase reforms
Published on:The first phase of the Care Act has been implemented well, but this places new responsibilities on local authorities whose core funding is being significantly reduced.
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Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage programme
Published on:Government says carbon capture technology is ‘essential’ to achieving net zero. The government doesn’t have a credible alternative pathway.
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Carbon Capture and Storage: the second competition for government support
Published on:The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has not achieved value for money for its £100 million spend on the second competition for government financial support for carbon capture storage.
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Carbon capture and storage: lessons from the competition for the first UK demonstration
Published on:This competition was launched in 2007 with insufficient planning and recognition of the commercial risks and cancelled four years later. With commercial scale carbon capture and storage technology still to be developed, DECC must learn from the failure of this project.
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Capital funding for schools
Published on:The Department must make the best use of the capital funding it has available by continuing to increase the use of data to inform its funding decisions and by creating places where it can demonstrate that they will have the greatest impact.
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Capital funding for new school places
Published on:The Department has increased funding for new school places, but there are indications of real strain, with 256,000 new places still needed by 2014/15.
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Capability in the Civil Service
Published on:Government has gaps in its capability and must do more to develop the skills needed. It is making plans, but the scale of the challenge means greater urgency is needed.
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CandAG’s Report on Accounts: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) Appropriation Accounts 1999-2000
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported to Parliament on how the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)1 successfully avoided millennium-compliance problems when replacing its computerised vehicles system, although the project took twice the anticipated timescale to complete. The report details the project management problems encountered by the DVLA in […]
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Cambridge-MIT Institute
Published on:The head of the National Audit Office Sir John Bourn reported today on the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI). His report acknowledges the considerable potential and early success of CMI and identifies important lessons for departments on setting up and managing innovative ventures in the future. CMI, a company jointly owned by Cambridge University and the Massachusetts […]
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Cafcass’s response to increased demand for its services
Published on:Although Cafcass could not have predicted the sustained increase in care cases from November 2008, it could have responded more quickly and cost effectively to the large and sustained increase in care cases from local authorities.
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Cabinet Office functional savings
Published on:The Cabinet Office reports efficiency savings across shared government functions, but they could implement a more robust approach.
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Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Published on:The Cabinet Office has published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2022-23, which includes the C&AG’s audit certificate and report.
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Cabinet Office and HM Treasury – Integration across government
Published on:By operating in a more integrated way, government could reduce inefficiencies in public services and deliver a better service to citizens.
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Cabinet Office Accounts 2024-25
Published on:Gareth Davies, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has reported on the 2024-25 accounts of the Cabinet Office.
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Cabinet Office (Office of Public Service) – The Sale of The Stationery Office
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C&AG’s Report on Accounts: Child Support Agency Client Fund Account 1999-2000
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported to Parliament the results of his examination of the Child Support Agency’s Client Funds Account for 1999-2000. Sir John qualified his opinion on the account due to the level of error in receipts from non resident parents and errors in outstanding maintenance balances, arising […]
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C&AG report: HM Revenue and Customs 2011-12 accounts
Published on:HMRC’s progress in stabilising the PAYE service, its performance in managing tax debt; and its progress in tackling tax credit overpayment.
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C&AG report on the qualification of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s accounts
Published on: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 […]
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C&AG report on Accounts: Returning Officers’ Expenses (England and Wales) Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2008
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C&AG Report on Accounts: Community Legal Service Fund and Criminal Defence Service accounts 2008-09
Published on:The head of the National Audit Office, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has today qualified the accounts of the Legal Services Commission for 2008-09 because of overpayments made by the Commission to solicitors, estimated at almost £25 million.