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  1. British Business Bank

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    This report examines whether the British Business Bank is improving access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises.

  5. Local authority governance

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    Our report examines whether local governance arrangements provide assurance that local authority spending achieves value and authorities are financially sustainable

  7. Network Rail’s sale of railway arches

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    This report examines the value for money of Network Rail’s sale of a major part of its commercial real estate portfolio.

  9. Evaluating the government balance sheet: borrowing

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    Public and private borrowing are high, kept affordable by record low interest rates, and quantitative easing continues ten years after the crisis it responded to.

  10. The sale of student loans

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    This report considers the value for money of the sale of student loans that entered repayment between 2002 & 2006.

  11. PFI and PF2

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    A briefing on the rationale, costs and benefits of the Private Finance Initiative; the use of and impact of PFI, and ability to make savings from operational contracts; and the introduction of PF2. There are currently over 700 operational PFI and PF2 deals, with a capital value of around £60 billion and annual charges for these deals amounted to £10.3 billion in 2016-17. Even if no new deals are entered into, future charges which continue until the 2040s amount to £199 billion.

    18 January 2018

  12. Key findings from an investigation into low- and medium-value property sales

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    The NAO has carried out an investigation into whether government bodies are achieving market value prices from property sales. This investigation looks at a small sample of government property sales of £1 million or less from 2014-15 and 2015-16.

    18 September 2017

  14. The Green Investment Bank

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    This examines whether the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has achieved the objectives of the UK Green Investment Bank intervention, and whether UK Government Investments has achieved value for money in the subsequent sale of the Bank.

  16. Department for International Development: investing through CDC

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    The Department for International Development has improved its oversight of CDC and has directed it to address many of the weaknesses previously identified by Parliament. However, it remains a significant challenge for CDC to demonstrate its ultimate objective of creating and making a lasting difference to people’s lives in some of the world’s poorest places.

  17. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s Magnox contract

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    The NDA’s fundamental failures in the Magnox contract procurement raise serious questions about its understanding of procurement regulations and its ability to manage large, complex procurements.

  18. Evaluating the government balance sheet: pensions

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    We have published a series of reports which explore some of the major risks to public finances highlighted in the Whole of Government Accounts (WGA).