The rural broadband programme
Published on: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.
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Palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal Programme
Published on:This report looks at the Restoration and Renewal Programme to identify potential risks and recommend how these may be addressed.
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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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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.
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Achieving government’s long-term environmental goals
Published on:This report examines how government has set itself up to deliver its long-term environmental goals.
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Universal Credit advances fraud
Published on:This report outlines the extent of Universal Credit advances fraud and the DWP’s actions to detect, recover and prevent it.
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HMRC The compliance and enforcement programme
Published on:A major HMRC programme to improve the way it tackles evasion delivered £4.32 billion of additional tax yield, reduced staff numbers and improved compliance work. However the Department is not yet exploiting the full potential of its new systems.
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Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs annual accounts 2017-18
Published on:Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the National Audit Office, has reported on the 2017-18 accounts of HM Revenue & Customs. His report focuses on tax revenue; Personal Tax Credits and Child Benefit error and fraud; and HMRC’s digital transformation programme.
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Progress delivering the Emergency Services Network
Published on:This report examines the progress made in delivering the Emergency Services Network and the
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Rolling out smart meters
Published on:This report examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s progress in rolling out smart meters.
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The New Homes Bonus
Published on:The NAO believes a review of the New Homes Bonus scheme is essential to ensure the Department understands the substantial financial risks to local authorities.
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Efficiency and reform in government corporate functions through shared service centres
Published on:By creating complex shared services over-tailored to individual departments, government has increased costs rather than made savings.
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Investigation into overpayments of Carer’s Allowance
Published on:This investigation examines the recent increase in identified errors in Carer’s Allowance and attempts to recover overpayments.
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Investigation into errors in Employment and Support Allowance
Published on:This investigation covers a single, major cause of underpayment error in ESA. This error relates to people whose existing benefit claim was converted to ESA and who were entitled to income-related ESA but were only awarded contribution-based ESA.
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Building capability in the Senior Civil Service to meet today’s challenges
Published on:The government now accepts the urgent need for a skilled cross-departmental leadership group – but this requires changing the long-standing culture of the Senior Civil Service.
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Fracking for shale gas in England
Published on:This report sets out the facts about the government’s support of shale gas development in England.
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Reducing costs in the Department for Transport
Published on:The Department for Transport started its preparations for the 2010 spending review early and took steps to improve and challenge the evidence on which it based its decisions with a view to securing value for money.
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DFID: Transferring Cash & Assets to the poor
Published on:DFID is successfully reaching particularly poor people with transfers, but needs to focus more on how cost-effectively they are delivered.