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  1. Homelessness in England Visualisation

    Report Interactive visualisation

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    Explore the broad trends identified by our report Homelessness and build a richer understanding of what they mean for different parts of the country.

  2. 2013-14 Accounts of the Office for Legal Complaints

    Report Financial audit

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    The C&AG has qualified his opinion on the 2013-14 Accounts of the Office for Legal Complaints. This is in part owing to expenses paid to its Chief Executive, the former Accounting Officer of the body, which were not retrospectively approved by the Ministry of Justice.

  3. Universal Credit: progress update

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    The DWP has reset Universal Credit on a sounder basis but at significant cost, by extending the time for implementation and choosing a more expensive approach.

  4. Reforming defence acquisition

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    MOD has made good progress stabilising the equipment programme but needs to set out how a bespoke trading entity will transform Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) into the leading defence acquisition organisation by 2017.

  5. Crossrail – a progress update

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    This report makes recommendations for Crossrail Ltd and the programme sponsors as Crossrail nears completion.

  6. Investigation into the UNBOXED festival

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    An investigation into the UNBOXED festival by the National Audit Office found that audience engagement was lower than originally modelled, although the project was delivered on time and is forecast to be on budget.

  8. Defence inventory management

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    Delivery to the frontline is still being put at risk by longstanding weaknesses in inventory management, despite the Ministry of Defence taking steps to improve, according to a new National Audit Office report.

  9. Update on preparations for Smart Metering

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    The economic case for the smart metering programme remains positive but there are significant risks and challenges to successful implementation, which must be managed.

  10. Entitlement to free early education and childcare

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    Significant progress has been made in providing 15 hours of free childcare to parents of 3- and 4-year olds, but the Department of Education has not yet achieved full value for money

  12. Supporting local economic growth

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    This report considers lessons DLUHC has learned from implementing local growth policies, and how it has applied them.

  14. Strategic flood risk management

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    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.

  15. Government Shared Services

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    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.

  18. Progress with trade negotiations

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    This report examines government’s progress with its programme of trade negotiations since the UK’s departure from the EU.

  19. Progress in improving the medical assessment of incapacity and disability benefits

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    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 […]

  20. Discharging older patients from hospital

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    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.