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  2. Policy Development: Improving Air Quality

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    The development of the national Air Quality Strategy provides a good example of modern policy-making practices, and further improvements can be made, according to a National Audit Office report. The NAO used the development of the second Air Quality Strategy (published in January 2000) to examine the policy development processes of the former Department of […]

  3. Police procurement

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    Police forces in England and Wales could make savings by working together to improve their buying power for essential goods and services

  4. Police accountability: Landscape review

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    The new policing oversight framework has been in place for a year but already there are gaps in the system with the potential to undermine accountability both to the Home Office and the public.

  5. Planting Trees in England

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    This report evaluates whether Defra’s management of new tree-planting schemes is likely to achieve value for money.

  6. Planning for the Better Care Fund

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    The Better Care Fund is an innovative idea but the quality of early preparation and planning did not match the scale of the ambition. Current plans forecast £314m of savings for the NHS rather than the £1 billion in early planning assumptions.

  7. Planning for new homes

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    This report assesses how effectively the Department supports the planning regime to provide the right homes in the right places.

  8. Planning for homes: Speeding up planning applications for major housing developments in England

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    The Department for Communities and Local Government has given local authorities approximately £68 million a year to improve the handling of planning applications and in particular to speed them up. While authorities are taking more decisions on major housing schemes within 13 weeks, the true extent of the improvement across the development process is not […]

  12. Pipes and Wires

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    Consumers of basic services delivered by pipes and wires have benefited from lower prices and more reliable services as a result of the way these networks have been regulated, according to a report published today by Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office. The approach to regulation does, however, have some inherent limitations […]

  13. PFI: The STEPS Deal

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office today reported to Parliament on the £1.5 billion Strategic Transfer of the Estate to the Private Sector (STEPS) PFI deal entered into by Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise with a private sector consortium known as Mapeley STEPS. The deal incorporates the transfer of the ownership […]

  14. PFI: The New Headquarters for the Home Office

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that the Home Office will get what it wants at a good price from the PFI deal to provide serviced headquarters accommodation for 3450 Home Office and Prison Service staff, but risks remain. The Home Office is due to move into the new […]

  15. PFI: Construction Performance

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    Most construction work under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is being delivered on time and at the cost expected by the public sector. Central government has generally obtained a much higher degree of price certainty and timely delivery of good quality built assets, compared to previous conventional government building projects, Sir John Bourn, Head of […]

  16. PFI Refinancing Update

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    The public sector now has the prospect of securing a bigger share of the gains arising from the refinancing of PFI projects, under new arrangements introduced by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). The OGC negotiated these measures with the private sector following earlier concerns of the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) […]

  17. PFI in housing

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    The use of PFI by local authorities to improve housing, usually in areas with a high need for housing and where stock condition is particularly poor, has had a measure of success. However, risks to value for money of the programme have not been managed.

  18. 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