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  1. Assurance of reported savings at Sellafield

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    The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s systems for recording and challenging claimed savings at Sellafield give moderate assurance of reported overall savings since 2009-10.

  2. Assurance for major projects

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    Significant changes have been made to the assurance system for major projects but Government needs to do more as the system is not yet ‘built to last’.

  3. Assurance for high risk projects

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    The role of assurance is to provide information to those that sponsor, govern and manage a project to help them make better informed decisions which reduce the causes of project failure, promote the conditions for success and deliver improved outcomes.

  4. Assessment of the Capability Review programme

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    The Cabinet Office’s Capability Review programme aims to assess and improve government departments’ ability to deliver their objectives. The National Audit Office today reports that the programme has led to evidence of greater capability in departments.  But departments have yet to show that the programme has had an impact on outcomes in delivering public services. […]

  5. Assessing the value for money of OGCbuying.solutions

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    OGCbuying.solutions, an executive agency of the Office of Government Commerce providing procurement services to the public sector, achieved value for money savings of £412 million in 2005-06, up 71 per cent from 2003-04. But, according to a report published today by the National Audit Office, OGCbuying.solutions has the potential to increase its value for money […]

  6. Assessing the impact of proposed new policies

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    Impact Assessments, used to assess the need for and the likely impact of proposed government policy interventions, do not yet consistently provide a sound basis for assessing the merits of different policy proposals. Further improvement in the quality and use of Impact Assessments is needed to achieve value for money. 

  8. Assessing and Reporting Military Readiness

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that the Ministry of Defence has a good system for reporting the readiness of its Armed Forces, which continues to improve. More work is required, however, both to better define and measure its Public Service Agreement target for readiness, and to define and […]

  9. Arts Council of England: Monitoring major Capital Projects Funded by the National Lottery

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament today on the way in which the Arts Council of England manage the risks during the construction phase of major capital projects funded by the National Lottery. He found that the Arts Council have, from the outset, adopted a pro-active approach to monitoring […]

  11. Army 2020

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    The MOD decision to reduce the size of the regular Army and increase the number of trained Army reserves was taken without appropriate testing of feasibility or evaluation of risk.

  12. Appropriation Accounts 1998-99 Volume 8: Class VIII – Lord Chancellor’s Department and Serious Fraud Office

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General, Sir John Bourn, today reported to Parliament that he has qualified his opinion on the Lord Chancellor’s Department Appropriation Account due to limited evidence available to confirm that £633 million of criminal legal aid payments complied fully with legal aid regulations. He has also reported on control weaknesses in the Lord […]

  14. Appropriation Accounts 1998-99 Volume 1: Class I – Ministry of Defence

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported to Parliament the results of his examination of the 1998-99 Appropriation Accounts of the Ministry of Defence (the Department). The Department have worked hard in recent years to secure better control over their expenditure, and have introduced measures that have led to important improvements and […]

  15. Appropriation Accounts 1998-99 Class XII, Vote 1: Central Government Administered Social Security Benefits and other pay

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported the results of his examination of the Benefits Agency’s Appropriation Account. Sir John qualified his audit opinion on the account due to the level of benefit fraud and the level of error in benefit awards, principally in income support and jobseeker’s allowance. This account […]

  16. Approaches to achieving net zero across the UK

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    Achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK will require co-ordinated action by the UK and devolved governments, due to different challenges faced.

  17. Apprenticeships Visualisation

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    Our interactive data visualisation lets you explore the changes in the pattern of apprenticeship starts and maps showing where apprenticeships are taking place.

  20. Allocation and management of risk in Ministry of Defence PFI projects

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    Most Ministry of Defence projects funded by PFI deals are delivered satisfactorily, on time and on budget. In six of the eight projects examined by the NAO, the Department has generally achieved value for money through effective allocation and management of risks. Failures to identify and manage risks reduced the value for money achieved from […]