The newly-created Competition and Markets Authority has made significant progress in improving how the UK’s competition regime works, and it is now more coherent than before. Business awareness of competition law, however, is low and while it has improved the robustness of its enforcement casework, the regime has so far not produced a substantial flow of enforcement decisions or fines.
This report describes government’s progress in implementing changes required to manage the border after the end of the transition period.
This report considers the work that government has been undertaking at the border to prepare for a no-deal EU exit.
This report assesses how prepared government departments are for the changes required at the border after EU exit.
This memorandum supports the Public Accounts Committee’s examination of the government’s preparedness for ‘no deal’
Government has repeatedly changed its plans for introducing full import controls following the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU).
Both organisations have achieved cost reduction and performance improvement, but poor planning and delayed delivery of projects hampered progress.
This report examines the government’s progress in managing the border and implementing the Northern Ireland Protocol since the end of the transition period.
This report provides Parliament with insights on the issues and challenges for government’s management of the border in light of the UK’s planned departure from the European Union.
This report is a factual update to support the Committee of Public Accounts’ evidence session on the government’s Troubled Families programme on 19 October 2016. It is based primarily on published sources, information supplied by the Department for Communities and Local Government and previous reports published by the National Audit Office.
This Report on HM Treasury’s Resource Accounts for 2010-11 sets out the scale and costs of the Government’s financial interventions as at 31 March 2011.
This study will assess whether the Department and Network Rail’s are in a position to deliver the Transpennine Route Upgrade successfully.
This briefing provides details of the Department for International Trade’s (DIT’s) progress to date in establishing a trade remedies function, following our review of information and data provided to us by DIT.
This briefing is intended to assist the Public Administration Committee in considering options for work on the ‘third sector’ or voluntary and community sector.
This examines the causes of poor performance on the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern network since the franchise began in September 2014, the effects on passenger services, financial outcomes for the operator and the Department, and the Department’s handling of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise.
The National Audit Office has today called for a step change improvement in how central government departments work with each other and with regional and local bodies, if the Government’s ambitious aspirations for the Thames Gateway region are to be realised. The Government has set out its vision to make the Thames Gateway, the area […]
The Department for Trade and Industry successfully transferred risk in the PFI contract to build and manage new facilities for the National Physical Laboratory and protected the taxpayer from bearing the majority of the costs of the project’s problems. Delays during the construction of the new facilities meant that the DTI did not secure the […]
UK Government says it is on track to meet target to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020. Local authorities’ ability to secure suitable school places and houses a risk to success. NAO estimate programme will cost £1.12bn by 2020.
This report examines the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) as part of the government’s response to COVID-19 in 2020.