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  2. The effective management of tax reliefs

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    HM Treasury and HMRC do not keep track of tax reliefs intended to change behaviour, or adequately report to Parliament on whether tax reliefs work as expected.

  3. Achieving net zero

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    This report applies experience from auditing cross-government challenges to highlight the risks government needs to manage to achieve net zero.

  4. Universal Credit: early progress

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    Universal Credit plans were driven by an ambitious timescale, and this led to the adoption of a new approach. The programme suffered from weak management and ineffective control.

  8. Government grant services

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    Government has given less attention to grants than to other policy funding mechanisms, despite grant funding being higher in value, making up 41 per cent (£292 billion) of its total expenditure.

  9. Specialist skills in the civil service

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    This report examines the progress the government has made in developing specialist skills in the civil service.

  11. Child maintenance 2012 scheme: Early Progress

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    The DWP has simplified the way it administers child maintenance and is approaching expected levels of performance. But overall objectives might be at risk if the number of people using family-based arrangements does not increase.

  12. The National Law Enforcement Data Programme

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    This report assesses the Home Office’s progress in delivering the National Law Enforcement Data Service programme to replace outdated police ICT systems.

  15. Confirmed impacts: NAO report influences better regulation of consumer credit

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    In March 2013, the Minister for Consumer Affairs, along with the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, confirmed in a statement in the House of Commons that the government has drawn on our analysis as it develops a new regulatory regime for consumer credit markets.

    This NAO impacts case study represents one example where there has been some beneficial change, whether financial or non-financial, resulting from our involvement.

  17. The energy supplier market

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    This report examines the recent exit of energy suppliers from the market and government’s role in managing the exits.

  20. Regulating financial services

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    The new system of regulating financial services will need to demonstrate in future that the cost of two regulators achieves value for money for customers.