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  1. Preparedness for online safety regulation

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    Our report looks at whether the preparations undertaken by DSIT (and previously DCMS) and Ofcom for the implementation of the new online safety legislation are sufficiently advanced.

  3. Preparations for the roll-out of smart meters

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    There are major risks the Department of Energy and Climate Change must address to achieve value for money from its £11.3 billion national programme to install ‘smart’ electricity and gas meters in all homes and smaller non-domestic premises in Great Britain from 2014 to 2019.

  4. Preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Progress report June 2008

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    In its progress report on the Olympic and Paralympic Games the National Audit Office has found that with four years to go until the start of the Games, the preparations have progressed in important ways. In particular, there has been good progress in preparing the Olympic Park site and construction activities are broadly on track. […]

  6. Preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Progress report February 2010

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    Venues and infrastructure for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games are on track to be delivered on time for the Games and the cost is currently forecast to be within the £9,325 million budget for the Games announced in March 2007, according to a progress report to Parliament by the National Audit Office. However, […]

  8. Preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – Risk assessment and management

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    Today’s report, which is the National Audit Office’s first on the preparations for London 2012, identifies six main risk areas which may impact on the Games: Delivering the Games against an immovable deadline. The need for strong governance and delivery structures given the multiplicity of organisations and groups involved in the Games. The requirement for […]

  9. Preparations for Digital Switchover

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    The National Audit Office has found that a good start has been made in preparing for the replacement by 2012 of the analogue television service with a digital one. Eighty-five per cent of households have already switched from analogue to digital TV for their main set. However, consumers will have to convert or replace another […]

  10. PPP in practice: National Savings and Investments’ deal with Siemens Business Services, four years on

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    The PPP deal between National Savings and Investments (NS&I) and Siemens Business Services has improved customer service and has contributed to savings for the taxpayer, Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today. However, Siemens Business Services and NS&I underestimated the challenge involved. Siemens Business Services has encountered a number of problems […]

  12. 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 […]

  13. Police productivity

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    We examine how the Home Office is supporting police forces to improve their productivity and long-term financial sustainability.

  14. 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

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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 […]