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  1. Regulation of private renting

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    This report examines the extent to which the regulation of private renting supports DLUHC’s aim to ensure fairness for renters.

  2. Next NAO Chair announced

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    Michael Jary CBE has been announced by the Prime Minister and the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as the next chair of the National Audit Office.

  3. 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.

  4. Modernising Defra’s ageing digital services

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    This report examines whether Defra has a full understanding of its legacy challenges, including cyber security risks, and if its plans to address the problem are realistic, achievable and aligned to future needs.

  5. Department for Work and Pensions Accounts 2016-17

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2016-17 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is owing to the high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure excluding State Pension, resulting in over and underpayments to claimants.

    4 July 2017

  6. Optimising the defence estate

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    This report examines the Ministry of Defence’s progress in optimising its estate and disposing of sites that are not needed.

  7. Electronic monitoring – a progress update

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    This report sets out the NAO’s assessment of the delivery of the electronic monitoring (‘tagging’) transformation programme.

  8. Severance and wider benefits for senior BBC managers

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    Savings the BBC has made from senior manager redundancies exceed the cost of severance payments but it has too often breached its policies on severance payments for senior managers.

  9. Managing the welfare cap

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    The welfare cap is encouraging a greater understanding of spending on some benefits and tax credits across government, but it is important that processes for managing the cap are reliable.

  10. PFI and PF2

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    A briefing on the rationale, costs and benefits of the Private Finance Initiative; the use of and impact of PFI, and ability to make savings from operational contracts; and the introduction of PF2. There are currently over 700 operational PFI and PF2 deals, with a capital value of around £60 billion and annual charges for these deals amounted to £10.3 billion in 2016-17. Even if no new deals are entered into, future charges which continue until the 2040s amount to £199 billion.

    18 January 2018

  11. Management of the BBC’s critical projects

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    BBC has improved the way it manages its business critical projects. Most are on course to deliver and achieve their intended benefits but needs to do more to manage its critical projects as a coherent portfolio.