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  2. The first sale of shares in Lloyds Banking Group

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    The Government’s first sale of shares in Lloyds Banking Group was managed very effectively by United Kingdom Financial Investments Limited.

  3. Civil Service People Survey Explorer

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    Find out how government departments score on diversity. Our interactive graphics summarise the findings from Cabinet Office’s People Survey.

  4. Establishing Free Schools

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    Many new Free Schools have been established quickly and at relatively low cost but the DfE will need to tackle a rising cost trend and systematically learn lessons from problems in a few early wave schools.

  5. Public Service Pensions

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    This report outlines how the public service pensions landscape has changed since the Hutton Review and highlights future challenges.

  6. Progress in delivering the Thameslink programme

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    Thameslink aims to reduce overcrowding and journey times. Initial progress has been good but a 3 year delay in awarding the train contract puts the 2018 programme deadline at risk.

  9. Memorandum: The Future of Jobcentre Plus Inquiry

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    Our 2016 memorandum was prepared to inform the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry into the future of Jobcentre Plus (JCP), including the likely effects of planned welfare policy changes on JCP footfall and journey time to jobcentres. In October 2017 we published an associated interactive data model allowing exploration of the time it will take for people to travel to their nearest jobcentre.

  11. Charges for customer telephone lines

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    Government is continuing to make extensive use of higher rate telephone numbers for customer telephone lines, despite efforts by departments to reduce their use.

  13. Progress in tackling tobacco smuggling

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    Tobacco smuggling is a significant threat to tax revenues. HMRC’s renewed strategy sets out the right measures but the Department’s performance is disappointing.

  14. Establishing social enterprises under the Right to Request Programme

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    This report highlights risks to value for money associated with the Department of Health’s programme aimed at enabling its staff to take the lead in leaving the NHS to set up health social enterprises. These are independent bodies delivering services, previously provided in-house, under contract to PCTs.

  15. Electricity networks

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    This report examines how effectively Ofgem has used electricity network price controls to protect consumers and achieve government’s environmental goals.

  16. The rural broadband programme

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    The programme to make superfast broadband widely available in each area of the UK is currently expected to be delivered nearly two years later than planned.

  19. Regulating defined contribution pension schemes

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    The Pensions Regulator and other agencies regulating defined contribution pension schemes should take a concerted approach towards collecting evidence and assessing risks to members.