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  5. Funding of women’s centres in the community

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    The NAO has prepared this briefing for the Justice Select Committee in support of its inquiry into women offenders. The briefing looks specifically at the new funding arrangements for women’s centres in the community, which have been funded partly by the Ministry of Justice, the National Offender Management Service, and partly by probation trusts since 2009.

  6. Funding of Coventry City of Culture Trust

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    A factual overview of funding provided to the Coventry City of Culture Trust, which became insolvent in March 2023.

  7. Funding healthcare: Making allocations to local areas

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    There is wide variation in the extent to which £79 billion in central funding allocated to local health bodies differs from target allocations that are based on relative need.

    • This is NAO’s first report on funding since the 2013 health reforms took effect. Where possible comparisons have been made with funding under the previous system set out in a 2011 NAO report.

  8. Funding for local transport: an overview

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    As the funding and provision of transport decentralises, this report gives an overview of the landscape and highlights issues and risks.

  9. Funding for disadvantaged pupils

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    While the impact of the Pupil Premium will take time to become clear, it has the potential to bring about a significant improvement in outcomes. However, the Department for Education and schools have more to do.

  12. Fraud landscape review

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    The exact scale of fraud within government is unknown. The quality and completeness of fraud data is often variable.

  13. Fracking for shale gas in England

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    This report sets out the facts about the government’s support of shale gas development in England.

  14. Fourth Validation Compendium Report

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    Government departments have improved the quality of the data systems used to report progress against their Public Service Agreements. But a report out today by the National Audit Office found that although half of the data systems needed no further work, over a third, though broadly appropriate, needed strengthening and some 15 per cent were […]

  19. Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Managing risk in the Overseas Territories

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    The UK bears the ultimate risk of potential liabilities from its overseas territories such as Anguilla, Montserrat and the Falkland Islands; and, while progress has been made in managing and mitigating these risks since the last report by the National Audit Office in 1997, there is room for improvement, the NAO has reported today. The […]

  20. Foreign and Commonwealth Office Resource Accounts 2003-04: Rationalisation of the Glencairn Estate in Dublin

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office had sold the British Ambassador’s official Residence on the Glencairn estate in Dublin and spent £6.4 million on purchasing Marlay Grange as a replacement. Having spent a further £0.7 million on refurbishing the property it then decided […]