The BBC’s move to Salford
Published on: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.
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Confiscation Orders
Published on:The use of confiscation orders to deny criminals the proceeds of their crimes is not proving to be value for money.
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Gift Aid and reliefs on donations
Published on: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.
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The first sale of shares in Lloyds Banking Group
Published on:The Government’s first sale of shares in Lloyds Banking Group was managed very effectively by United Kingdom Financial Investments Limited.
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Implementing transparency
Published on:Better access to public information can improve accountability and service delivery. Government needs a firm grasp of whether that potential is being realised.
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The Privatisation of Royal Mail
Published on: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.
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Establishing Free Schools
Published on: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.
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Civil Service People Survey Explorer
Published on:Find out how government departments score on diversity. Our interactive graphics summarise the findings from Cabinet Office’s People Survey.
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Public Service Pensions
Published on:This report outlines how the public service pensions landscape has changed since the Hutton Review and highlights future challenges.
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Department for Work and Pensions: 2010-11 accounts
Published on:The NAO has published its report on the 2010-11 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Progress in delivering the Thameslink programme
Published on: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.
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Regulating defined contribution pension schemes
Published on:The Pensions Regulator and other agencies regulating defined contribution pension schemes should take a concerted approach towards collecting evidence and assessing risks to members.
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Establishing social enterprises under the Right to Request Programme
Published on: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.
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Charges for customer telephone lines
Published on:Government is continuing to make extensive use of higher rate telephone numbers for customer telephone lines, despite efforts by departments to reduce their use.
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Electricity networks
Published on:This report examines how effectively Ofgem has used electricity network price controls to protect consumers and achieve government’s environmental goals.
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Memorandum: The Future of Jobcentre Plus Inquiry
Published on: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.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Geographic information strategy
Published on:DEFRA has delivered some value from the £39.3 million spent on its geographic information strategy and activities. However, a lack of financial information means that the NAO cannot determine that value for money has been achieved.
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Progress in tackling tobacco smuggling
Published on: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.
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The Border Force: securing the border
Published on:The Border Force has successfully implemented full passenger checks and cut queuing times but at the cost of maintaining other aspects of border security.
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Confidentiality clauses and special severance payments
Published on:There is a lack of transparency, consistency and accountability in the use of compromise agreements in the public sector and little is being done to change this.