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  2. Confiscation Orders

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    The use of confiscation orders to deny criminals the proceeds of their crimes is not proving to be value for money.

  3. The BBC’s move to Salford

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    The relocation took place on time and without disruption to broadcasts and should be within budget. But it is too early to judge value for money for licence fee payers.

  4. Gift Aid and reliefs on donations

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    HMRC and the Treasury do not know if incentives designed to increase charitable giving, at a cost to the taxpayer of £940 million in 2012-13, have resulted in more income for charities.

  5. Student loan repayments

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    BIS will not be well-placed to secure value for money on student loan repayments until it has a more robust strategy to improve collection performance.

  7. The Privatisation of Royal Mail

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    The Department was successful in floating Royal Mail. But its approach was marked by deep caution, the price of which was borne by the taxpayer.

  8. Adult social care in England: overview

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    The provision of adequate adult social care poses a significant public service challenge. Demand for care is rising while public spending is falling.

  9. Implementing transparency

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    Better access to public information can improve accountability and service delivery. Government needs a firm grasp of whether that potential is being realised.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. Appropriation Accounts 1998-99 Class XII, Vote 1: Central Government Administered Social Security Benefits and other pay

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported the results of his examination of the Benefits Agency’s Appropriation Account. Sir John qualified his audit opinion on the account due to the level of benefit fraud and the level of error in benefit awards, principally in income support and jobseeker’s allowance. This account […]

  14. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.