Responding to change in jobcentres
Published on:The jobcentre network has coped well in the economic downturn, but must improve performance measures if it is to support claimants effectively.
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Evaluation in Government
Published on:Treasury expects all departments to evaluate the ex post impacts and costs of all their interventions, including spending, taxation and regulation. This activity should provide valuable information on the cost-effectiveness of government interventions, for the purposes of accountability and to learn lessons to improve current and future policies.
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Electronic monitoring – a progress update
Published on:This report sets out the NAO’s assessment of the delivery of the electronic monitoring (‘tagging’) transformation programme.
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Investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix
Published on: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.
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Government Interventions to Support Future Retirement Incomes
Published on:Measures to encourage people to save for retirement are not being managed by Departments with enough coherence or accountability.
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Improving the UK’s science capability for managing animal diseases
Published on:This report examines whether Defra is well placed to redevelop the UK’s primary site for managing threats from animal diseases.
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Follow-up on the Charity Commission
Published on:The Charity Commission has made early progress in addressing NAO and Public Accounts Committee recommendations, but significant challenges remain.
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High Speed 2: A review of early programme preparation
Published on:The strategic case for HS2, in terms of increasing rail capacity and generating regional growth, has still to be demonstrated clearly.
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Department of Health and Social Security – Housing Benefits Scheme
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Cabinet Office and HM Treasury – Integration across government
Published on:By operating in a more integrated way, government could reduce inefficiencies in public services and deliver a better service to citizens.
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Recovery of Social Security Benefits When Damages In Tort Are Awarded
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Planting Trees in England
Published on:This report evaluates whether Defra’s management of new tree-planting schemes is likely to achieve value for money.
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The effective management of tax reliefs
Published on: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.
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Department of Health and Social Security – Arrangements for Delivering Social Security Benefits
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The Police Uplift Programme
Published on:This report examines whether the Home Office is well placed to deliver value for money from the Police Uplift Programme.
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Managing the risks of legacy ICT to public service delivery
Published on:Older ICT systems critical for the delivery of key public services (‘legacy ICT’) expose departments to risks which must be understood and managed.
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Universal Credit: getting to first payment
Published on:This report examines how the DWP is managing the process of getting to first payment in Universal Credit.
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Achieving net zero
Published on:This report applies experience from auditing cross-government challenges to highlight the risks government needs to manage to achieve net zero.
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A commentary for the Committee of Public Accounts on the Work Programme outcome statistics
Published on:This commentary, on the first set of Work Programme data, has been produced for the Committee of Public Accounts.
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Improving Social Security Services in London – Management and Implementation of the Benefits Centres Projec
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