The Government has made progress delivering its latest strategy to share back-office services across Whitehall departments in the past year, but remaining barriers will need to be addressed for it to deliver its plans by 2028 and achieve value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
The Environment Agency has improved the cost effectiveness and prioritization of its flood risk spending but current spending is insufficient to meet many flood defence maintenance needs.
The Department for Work and Pensions has not yet achieved value for money in managing contracted-out health and disability assessments.
This report examines government’s progress with its programme of trade negotiations since the UK’s departure from the EU.
The Department for International Development’s spending on humanitarian interventions has almost trebled between 2010-11 and 2014-15 to more than £1 billion per year, rising as a share of its total budget from 6% to 14%.
There are currently far too many older people in hospitals who do not need to be there. Without radical action, this problem will worsen and add further financial strain to the NHS and local government.
Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Department for Work and Pensions’ annual report and accounts 2019-20
HM Treasury is improving the content of the Whole of Government Accounts, which shows the overall financial position of the UK public sector, and the document has been produced faster than ever.
Improvements have been made to the running of the Regional Growth Fund, but there is still a significant amount of public money to allocate through the Fund.
The DWP has not to date achieved value for money in the development of Universal Credit and to do so in future it will need to learn the lessons of past failures.
This study assesses how effectively the Department for Education is supporting education recovery in schools following the COVID-19 pandemic.
A National Audit Office (NAO) report assessing the Home Office’s progress delivering its asylum and protection transformation programme.
The NAO have investigated concerns that online sellers outside the EU are avoiding charging VAT.
The DfT and Transport for London have done well to protect taxpayers’ interests in Crossrail but risks remain including delivery of the trains.
An investigation into Verify, the government’s identity verification platform. It examines its performance, costs and benefits.
The Department for International Development met, for the calendar year 2013, the government target to spend 0.7% of the UK’s annual gross national income on overseas aid.
The disposal of former Northern Rock mortgages and loans in 2015 was the government’s largest ever financial asset sale. When judged against the Government’s objective to shrink the balance sheet swiftly the deal was value for money.
This report examines progress in establishing Integrated Care Systems in England.
Significant annual savings worth tens of billions of pounds are available through improving public sector productivity, the head of the NAO will say.
There are some good examples across government of alternatives to regulation being used to achieve policy objectives. However more needs to done to share these examples to highlight when alternatives are most likely to work and how they should be designed.