Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs annual accounts 2018-19
Published on:The Comptroller & Auditor General , Gareth Davies, has qualified his opinion on the regularity of HMRC’s 2018-19 Resource Accounts.
The Comptroller & Auditor General , Gareth Davies, has qualified his opinion on the regularity of HMRC’s 2018-19 Resource Accounts.
This report outlines the extent of Universal Credit advances fraud and the DWP’s actions to detect, recover and prevent it.
The Whole of Government Accounts consolidates the public sector’s accounts to produce a picture of the UK’s public finances.
This investigation describes the scheme’s purpose and how it functions, performance to date, and how government manages value-for-money risks.
This report examines the implementation of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on the 2018-19 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
This report aims to evaluate and conclude on HM Treasury’s overall approach to over-indebtedness.
Our Financial and Risk Management Insights team are experts in how public finances are managed and governed.
This investigation covers a single, major cause of underpayment error in ESA. This error relates to people whose existing benefit claim was converted to ESA and who were entitled to income-related ESA but were only awarded contribution-based ESA.
The National Audit Office has reported on the 2021-22 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
One in five people on Tax Credits who were invited to move to Universal Credit (UC) did not then claim UC and had their benefits stopped.
The NAO has conducted an investigation into DFID’s approach to tackling fraud, following an increase in the potential risks after the government committed to spend 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid.
BEIS worked quickly to introduce financial support for rising energy bills (currently estimated at £69bn), recognising it had to make compromises.
The NAO have investigated concerns that online sellers outside the EU are avoiding charging VAT.
Online fraud is now the most commonly experienced crime in England and Wales, but has been overlooked by government, law enforcement and industry.
The government continues to lose large amounts of money through fraud and error overpayments and many vulnerable people get less support than they are entitled to.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his opinion on the regularity of the Department for Work and Pensions’ financial statements due to material levels of fraud and error in benefit expenditure.
The exact scale of fraud within government is unknown. The quality and completeness of fraud data is often variable.
The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2015-16 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is owing to the unacceptably high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure, other than State Pension where the level of fraud and error is lower.
In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, said smarter government can provide people with better public services despite the challenging fiscal backdrop.