Northern Powerhouse Rail’s success is dependent on better cross-government working and stronger ties to the government’s economic strategy.
My outdoor tap leaks. Not very much, just a small drip. And though I put a bucket underneath to catch the drips, I’ll admit that sometimes the bucket overflows before I can use the water in my garden. I know I should find out if it’s just a dodgy washer or I need a replacement […]
This paper sets out how we constructed a counterfactual to establish how much water customers in England and Wales could have benefited from an alternative charging system between 2010/11 and 2014/15.
Payment by results (PbR) schemes are hard to get right, and are risky and costly for commissioners. Credible evidence for claimed benefits of PbR is now needed.
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, […]
This management report examines how the National Offender Management Service planned and is implementing the restructure of its headquarters.
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.
Our report examines whether MHCLG’s framework allows for the management of risks to local authorities from commercial property investment.
This is the second NAO report on government’s approach to test and trace services in England.
This report examines whether DfT and HS2 Ltd have protected value for money so far in their stewardship of HS2.
This report examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s progress in rolling out smart meters.