DfE must increase student numbers to realise full benefits of T Level qualifications
Published on:The Department for Education (DfE) must address issues surrounding student take-up to continue to scale up T Levels.
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FCDO’s £285 million investment in St Helena Airport has not yet achieved expected benefits
Published on:FCDO’s £285mn investment in St Helena Airport has not yet achieved expected benefits, including increased tourism and self-generated income.
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Realising the benefits of St Helena Airport: a progress update
Published on:This report an update to the NAO’s 2016 report on the St Helena airport and the FCDO’s economic support of the St Helena government.
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Substantial progress made with FCDO merger but more to do to achieve full benefits
Published on:The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has made substantial progress with the merger that created it, although some issues remain.
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Government encouraged to tackle barriers to realising the benefits of AI
Published on:AI presents the government with opportunities to transform public services potentially delivering billions of pounds in productivity savings.
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Transforming health assessments for disability benefits
Published on:DWP’s plans to transform the assessment process for disability benefits face challenges that it will need to carefully manage, according to NAO report.
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Transforming health assessments for disability benefits
Published on:An early assessment of the progress DWP is making with plans to transform the application and assessment process for disability benefits.
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Police recruitment target hit, now to secure the benefits
Published on:We’ve used our Police Uplift Programme report to give context on the Home Office reaching its target of 20,000 new police officers.
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Realising the benefits of the St Helena Airport project
Published on:The St Helena airport’s planned opening date in May 2016 has been postponed as outstanding safety concerns are addressed, potentially adding to the project’s cost and delaying its benefits.
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Realising the benefits of the St Helena Airport project
Published on:The St Helena airport’s planned opening date in May 2016 has been postponed as outstanding safety concerns are addressed, potentially adding to the project’s cost and delaying its benefits.
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Severance payments and wider benefits for senior BBC managers: supplementary note
Published on:The NAO provides a supplementary note on its examination of 90 more severance payments to senior BBC managers, following requests from the PAC and BBC Trust.
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Severance and wider benefits for senior BBC managers
Published on:Savings the BBC has made from senior manager redundancies exceed the cost of severance payments but it has too often breached its policies on severance payments for senior managers.
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Review of the final benefits statement for programmes previously managed under the National Programme for IT in the NHS
Published on:Benefits are expected to exceed costs slightly over the life of the systems, but there is uncertainty around whether the benefits will be realised
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Case study on integration: Measuring the costs and benefits of Whole-Place Community Budgets
Published on:By operating in a more integrated way, government could reduce inefficiencies in public services and deliver a better service to citizens. A case study on the Whole-Place Community Budget pilots points to the potential benefits on offer where public services are integrated more effectively.
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National Offender Management Service: Realising the benefits of the headquarters’ restructure
Published on:This management report examines how the National Offender Management Service planned and is implementing the restructure of its headquarters.
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Reducing losses in the benefits system caused by customers’ mistakes
Published on:DWP does not yet have enough evidence to demonstrate that its activities to reduce the cost of mistakes by customers have been value for money. Although mistakes are difficult to detect, correct and prevent, the scale of overpayments and underpayments demonstrates a clear need for improvement.
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Support to incapacity benefits claimants through Pathways to Work
Published on:A Department for Work and Pensions programme to reduce the number of people claiming incapacity benefits and help them into work has had a limited impact and, while a serious attempt to tackle an intractable issue, has turned out to provide poor value for money.
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Dealing with the complexity of the benefits system
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today on the complexity of the benefits system, which he considers is one of the most important issues affecting the performance of the Department for Work and Pensions. According to the report to Parliament, tackling the problems associated with a complex system requires a systematic […]
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Getting it right, putting it right – Improving decision-making and appeals in social security benefits
Published on:Following reforms to decision-making and the appeal process in social security benefits, introduced in 1999 by the Department for Work and Pensions, the number of appeals against decisions has fallen overall by around 15 per cent and waiting times for appeal hearings have been cut. Since the reforms, decision-making performance for some benefits, but not […]
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Progress in improving the medical assessment of incapacity and disability benefits
Published on:The head of the National Audit Office, Sir John Bourn, today reported to Parliament that the Department for Work and Pensions and their contractor Schlumberger have improved arrangements for the medical assessment of benefit claims since the National Audit Office reported on this subject in 2001. They have improved the speed of processing, the standard […]