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  1. Health and social care integration

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    The Better Care Fund has not achieved the expected value for money, in terms of savings, outcomes for patients or hospital activity.

  2. Health and social care integration

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    The Better Care Fund has not achieved the expected value for money, in terms of savings, outcomes for patients or hospital activity.

  5. Investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix

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    HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) contract with Synnex-Concentrix UK Ltd was terminated in November 2016. The contract was designed to add capacity to HMRC’s programme of interventions to prevent or detect error and fraud in personal tax credits awards. HMRC estimated that the contract would save £1 billion over its three year life time and an estimated £193 million, excluding Concentrix’s costs, had been saved by the time of contract termination.

  6. Investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix

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    HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) contract with Synnex-Concentrix UK Ltd was terminated in November 2016. The contract was designed to add capacity to HMRC’s programme of interventions to prevent or detect error and fraud in personal tax credits awards. HMRC estimated that the contract would save £1 billion over its three year life time and an estimated £193 million, excluding Concentrix’s costs, had been saved by the time of contract termination.

  7. Protecting consumers from scams, unfair trading and unsafe goods

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    The report examines the system protecting consumers from scams, unfair trading, and unsafe goods. BEIS has made progress since our 2011 review, but needs to do more, particularly in the context of the growth of e-commerce.

  8. Protecting consumers from scams, unfair trading and unsafe goods

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    The report examines the system protecting consumers from scams, unfair trading, and unsafe goods. BEIS has made progress since our 2011 review, but needs to do more, particularly in the context of the growth of e-commerce.

  9. Crown Commercial Service

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    It is not possible to show that the Crown Commercial Service has achieved more than departments would otherwise have achieved by buying common goods and services themselves.

  10. Crown Commercial Service

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    It is not possible to show that the Crown Commercial Service has achieved more than departments would otherwise have achieved by buying common goods and services themselves.

  11. Benefit sanctions

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    The Department for Work & Pensions is not doing enough to find out how sanctions affect people on benefits.

  12. Benefit sanctions

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    The Department for Work & Pensions is not doing enough to find out how sanctions affect people on benefits.

  13. Market Analytic Toolkit: for assessing public service markets

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    This toolkit is designed to guide those overseeing public service markets or assessing the effectiveness of these markets in terms of value for money and user outcomes. It helps government address a set of new challenges around its use of markets to deliver public services, including oversight, consumer protection, regulation and helping to achieve effective competition and innovative delivery.

  14. Modernising the Great Western railway

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    The cost of modernising the Great Western railway is estimated to be £5.58 billion, an increase of £2.1 billion since 2013, and there are delays to the electrification of the route of at least 18 to 36 months. The Department for Transport and Network Rail have begun to improve the management of the programme but they have more to do to protect value for money in the future.

  17. Protecting information across government

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    Protecting information while re-designing public services and introducing the technology necessary to support them is an increasingly complex challenge.

  18. Protecting information across government

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    Protecting information while re-designing public services and introducing the technology necessary to support them is an increasingly complex challenge.