The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2014-15 accounts of the DWP, owing to the unacceptably high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure.
The first in a series of blogs looking at the Commercial Lifecycle covers data.
The National Audit Office (NAO) is the UK’s independent public spending watchdog. We support Parliament in holding government to account and we help improve public services through our high-quality audits.
FCDO’s £285mn investment in St Helena Airport has not yet achieved expected benefits, including increased tourism and self-generated income.
This report examines whether the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund is likely to deliver value for money.
Government can save significant sums of time and money by improving how it engages with technology suppliers.
The C&AG has published his audit opinions for 2018-19 on the 1993, 2003 and 2012 Child Maintenance Schemes.
The Department for Education (DfE) must address issues surrounding student take-up to continue to scale up T Levels.
The NAO’s work includes looking at a huge range of government activities, and the setting up and managing of commercial arrangements are central to many of them. This became very clear when looking back at twenty years of our work auditing government’s spending and reporting on its value for money for taxpayers. Over this time, […]
Our report examines whether MHCLG’s framework allows for the management of risks to local authorities from commercial property investment.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on the 2018-19 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
This report sets out the process by which MHCLG chose the 101 towns in England it invited to develop Town Deals.
This is the second NAO report on government’s approach to test and trace services in England.
This management report examines how the National Offender Management Service planned and is implementing the restructure of its headquarters.
This report examines whether DfT and HS2 Ltd have protected value for money so far in their stewardship of HS2.
This report looks at how effectively government met the needs of clinically extremely vulnerable through the shielding programme.
This report examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s progress in rolling out smart meters.
This impacts case study shows how our international work can encourage and help other countries create strong systems of public assurance.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
This impacts case study shows how our identification of accounting errors kick-started a number of actions to improve financial management processes and training.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
This investigation describes the scheme’s purpose and how it functions, performance to date, and how government manages value-for-money risks.