This framework provides a structured, flexible approach to reviewing models. It is intended to aid those commissioning or undertaking analysis of a model with the aim of determining whether the model is robust and reasonable.
This guide has been produced to support the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport select committee in its examination of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport’s (DCMS’s) spending and performance.
This report assesses how government is trying to address the underlying issues that make digital transformation so difficult to achieve.
This opinion piece looks at the challenges faced when using Agile for major digital change programmes.
This guide is aimed at accounting officers, chief executives, director
generals, directors and chief operating officers and people responsible for government services.
This good practice guide will help audit committees understand and question the quality assurance framework for business-critical models.
We have used our insights to highlight the biggest opportunities for spending public money more efficiently and effectively.
The Digital Services Tax has raised more revenue than forecast by the Government and increased the amount of UK tax paid by big digital companies. HMRC’s compliance work is ongoing and it has yet to identify any non-compliance among business groups, according to a report by the National Audit Office.
The first in a series of blogs looking at the Commercial Lifecycle covers data.
Find out about the innovative ways our expert Modelling Team scrutinise departments’ models.
It’s revealing to look at the timeline of digital transformation initiatives over the last 25 years. Government’s ambition for ‘world class’ services using joined-up systems and data goes back to the mid 1990s, from where we can trace a steady stream of policies and initiatives right through to last autumn’s National Data Strategy. Most of […]
This guide helps Audit and Risk Committees ask the right questions when undertaking major digital change programmes using Agile.
This report assesses whether the BBC is on track to deliver value to its users from its digital transformation.
Use of process mining to help understand the Home Office’s operation of the Windrush Compensation Scheme
In our ever-increasing digital and automatized world, certain buzzwords are becoming more centre stage in the public sector. One of them is “artificial intelligence”. While the concept, and development, of artificial intelligence is not new (artificial intelligence was first recognised as a formal discipline in the mid-1950s), it is a word that has been casually […]
This piece explains how the NAO uses spatial analytics to bring audit teams closer to the data and visualise the complex geographic relationships at work behind the scenes in the justice system.
This report examines the use of financial models across government.
This report considers what the Superfast Broadband Programme has delivered and the lessons for government’s roll-out of nationwide gigabit broadband.
The Government has made progress delivering its latest strategy to share back-office services across Whitehall departments in the past year, but remaining barriers will need to be addressed for it to deliver its plans by 2028 and achieve value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
Audit committees should be scrutinising cyber security arrangements. To aid them, this guidance complements government advice by setting out high-level questions and issues for audit committees to consider.