Financial sustainability of local authorities
Published on:The NAO examines central government’s approach to the funding of local authorities as they deal with reduced funding without reducing services.
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The impact of government’s ICT savings initiatives
Published on:Government initiatives to reduce ICT spending are starting to work but the challenge will be to use ICT to reform public services and how government works.
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HM Courts and Tribunals Service Trust Statement for the year ended 31 March 2012
Published on:HMCTS has improved its ability to provide financial information on fines and penalty transactions but significant issues remain with key data systems.
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HM Treasury: Planning for economic infrastructure
Published on:The NAO has highlighted five risks to the value for money of some national infrastructure projects.
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Ministry of Defence – The Major Projects Report 2012
Published on:There are signs MOD has begun to make trade-offs with cost, time and technical requirements. But some major projects still suffer cost rises and delay.
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Observations on the Ministry of Defence major investment approval process
Published on:There have been some encouraging signs of improvement in the robustness of the approvals process in recent years but there remain a number of areas where a greater focus would add value.
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Office of Fair Trading: regulating consumer credit
Published on:Regulation of the consumer credit market is providing benefits to consumers, but is not minimizing consumer harm from unscrupulous trading practices.
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HM Revenue & Customs: Customer service performance
Published on:Despite some welcome improvements, HMRC’s performance in answering calls from the public is poor value for money.
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A commentary for the Committee of Public Accounts on the Work Programme outcome statistics
Published on:This commentary, on the first set of Work Programme data, has been produced for the Committee of Public Accounts.
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Progress in making NHS efficiency savings
Published on:The NHS made a substantial amount of efficiency savings in 2011-12. These will need to be sustained and built on if savings targets are to be met.
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Streamlining farm oversight
Published on:Farm oversight activity does not deliver value for money for the taxpayer and continues to burden compliant farmers unnecessarily.
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Lessons from cancelling the InterCity West Coast franchise competition
Published on:The competition to let this franchise lacked oversight. The full cost to the taxpayer is unknown, but likely to be significant.
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the 2011-12 Accounts of the Ministry of Defence
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has again refused to sign off the financial accounts of the Ministry of Defence.
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The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games: post-Games review
Published on:The NAO has underlined the success of the 2012 Games and stressed the importance of building on that success to deliver legacy benefits.
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Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission Client Funds Account 2011-12
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his opinion on the regularity of receipts and payments because of the level of error in maintenance assessments. He has also given an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the outstanding maintenance arrears.
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Published on:The Trust board’s poor financial management and procurement of an unaffordable PFI scheme have left the Trust in a critical financial position.
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Managing the expansion of the academies programme
Published on:The rapid expansion of the programme has been a significant achievement, but the DfE was unprepared for the scale of the financial implications.
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Tax avoidance: tackling marketed avoidance schemes
Published on:HMRC is making some headway in reducing opportunities for tax avoidance, but over 100 new schemes have been disclosed in each of the last four years.
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Financial Management at the BBC
Published on:The BBC demonstrates sound financial management but must align its spending decisions more closely with its strategic priorities.
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Overview of Ofgem 2011-12
Published on:This briefing on Ofgem, a non-ministerial government department, is similar to the briefings we are producing on the 15 major government departments. It is produced primarily as a briefing for the Environment and Climate Change Committee, and is based on Ofgem’s annual report and accounts and our own work relevant to Ofgem.