Governance and transparency
The NAO’s governance arrangements ensure that we operate effectively and transparently with due oversight while maintaining our independence.
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Agile or fragile? The challenges of Agile at scale
Published on:This opinion piece looks at the challenges faced when using Agile for major digital change programmes.
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Cost effectiveness analysis in the 2006 climate change programme review – NAO review for the Environmental Audit Committee
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Memorandum for Environmental Audit Committee: Waste and Recycling review
Published on:This memorandum has been prepared to support the Environmental Audit Committee to consider the decision taken by Defra in 2010, to withdraw the provisional allocation of PFI credits from seven (out of 18) PFI projects.
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Internal Audit in Practice Case Studies
Published on:The Institute of Internal Auditors and the NAO released a set of case studies illustrating some of the key principles of effective internal auditing, taken from a range of public and private sector organisations (including British Telecom, Department for Work and Pensions, EDF etc).
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Environmental Sustainability Overview
Published on:This report examines how far the Ministry of Defence has embedded environmental sustainability in estate management, procurement, governance and policy-making.
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Fact Sheet: Updated edition of the Treasury’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Handbook
Published on:The Treasury published an updated version of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Handbook in April 2013. We have produced a fact sheet signposting the main developments in the new Handbook.
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The effectiveness of internal audit in central government
Published on:Internal audit costs government around £70 million each year, but quality varies and it is poor value for money.
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Air Quality
Published on:This National Audit Office briefing gives an overview of government’s approach to improving air quality in the UK. It has been prepared in support of a joint inquiry by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee, the Health Committee and the Transport Committee. It examines why air quality matters; the UK’s plan for improving air quality; and risks and success factors for delivery of government’s air quality plans.
16 November 2017
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Briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee – Carbon Budget Management
Published on:The UK is committed, under the Climate Change Act 2008, to cutting carbon
emissions by at least 34 per cent by 2020 and by at least 80 per cent by 2050
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Local authority governance
Published on:Our report examines whether local governance arrangements provide assurance that local authority spending achieves value and authorities are financially sustainable
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Investigation into the BBC’s engagement with personal service companies
Published on:This investigation examines issues related to individuals the BBC hires as freelancers, particularly those hired through personal service companies.
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Sustainable development
Published on:Sustainable development is a devolved issue and this briefing covers government policy in England with a brief overview of the work of the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Pressures on children’s social care
Published on:This report covers recent trends in pressures on children’s social care demand and activity and national and local government’s response.
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NAO Briefing: Environmental protection
Published on:The National Audit Office has prepared this briefing on environmental protection for the Environmental Audit Committee. It is a follow up to the environmental protection briefing which the NAO prepared for the Committee in August 2010, and focusses on the progress made by the government in this area since 2010.
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Guide for Audit and Risk Committees on Financial Reporting and Management during COVID-19
Published on:This guide helps audit and risk committee members to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on their organisations.
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Department of Health and Social Care annual report and accounts 2021-22
Published on:The NAO has reported on the 2021-22 accounts of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
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NAO briefing: Sustainable procurement in government
Published on:This briefing has been prepared in response to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee for an update on the Government’s sustainable procurement commitments and its progress against those commitments.
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Confirmed impacts: Managing reductions in local authority government funding
Published on:This impacts case study shows how central government has responded to our identification of the need to have a better understanding of the implications on local service delivery when making funding decisions, and how local government has made use of our report.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
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Review of the VFM assessment process for PFI
Published on:The Treasury Committee asked the National Audit Office to undertake an analysis of the VFM assessment process and model for PFI. The assessment process combines a quantitative and qualitative approach to VFM appraisal. Our review focused, primarily, on the use of the financial model in the VFM assessment process and was submitted to the Treasury Committee as part of their inquiry into PF2.