This report, our first on this subject, is a landscape review of the BBC’s commercial activities, setting out how the BBC organizes these activities and the key risks and challenges they currently face.
The BBC has reduced its spending on support functions but in future it should plan for cuts by clearly defining the level of service it requires and what that should cost.
This NAO report assesses the World Service’s progress with implementing its savings programmes, and the impact on its performance.
This memorandum supports the Committee of Public Accounts’ inquiry into the award of the contracts by the Department for Transport.
This report examines the Home Office’s progress in delivering the asylum and protection transformation programme., including the potential impact of the programme on the wider asylum system.
The Assets Recovery Agency was set up without a feasibility study and has failed to achieve its targets for the recovery of criminal assets and for becoming self financing by 2005-06. To date the Agency has spent £65 million and recovered assets worth £23 million. Although the Agency now expects to become self-financing by 2009-10, […]
An interactive summary of the NAO’s presentations at Civil Service Live events, 2015, on four pervasive issues blocking public service improvement.
This report assesses whether the apprenticeships programme is providing value for money.
This report assesses the problems that the Ajax programme has encountered and the challenges the MoD faces in delivering it.
The MoD cannot determine exactly how much it has spent on resettling people in the UK through the Afghanistan Response Route scheme.
This report examines government’s management of the Affordable Homes Programme since 2015
The Department of Health & Social Care’s role in overseeing the adult social care workforce.
This report examines the current care market and the Department of Health & Social Care’s role in overseeing it.
An increasingly complex tax system is burdening government and business with billions in admin costs.
Initiatives to reduce the administrative burdens of complying with regulations have helped improve business perceptions of the government’s approach to regulation but businesses have not reported a reduction in the time taken to comply with regulations. The Administrative Burdens Reduction Programme aims to reduce by a quarter by 2010 the cost to businesses of complying […]
Maintaining accurate address records of the 2.6 million Scottish taxpayers remains the biggest risk facing HM Revenue & Customs in ensuring that Scottish income tax is assessed and collected properly.