The Environmental Land Management scheme
Published on:This report examines the strategic management of the Environmental Land Management scheme.
This report examines the strategic management of the Environmental Land Management scheme.
This report examines the extent to which the regulation of private renting supports DLUHC’s aim to ensure fairness for renters.
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.
This investigation explores government’s funding to charities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This report outlines how the public service pensions landscape has changed since the Hutton Review and highlights future challenges.
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.
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
This review suggests key questions to ask when reviewing major programmes.
This report examines the Ministry of Defence’s progress in optimising its estate and disposing of sites that are not needed.
This report examines government’s implementation of COVID-19 employment support schemes.
This report sets out the NAO’s assessment of the delivery of the electronic monitoring (‘tagging’) transformation programme.
This report examines whether Defra is well placed to redevelop the UK’s primary site for managing threats from animal diseases.
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.
DfT has strengthened how it supports use of new science and technology, but must establish a clearer risk appetite and provide better support.
This opinion piece looks at the challenges faced when using Agile for major digital change programmes.
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.
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
The NAO provides a supplementary note on its examination of 90 more severance payments to senior BBC managers, following requests from the PAC and BBC Trust.
A new NAO report finds that the proportion of benefit expenditure overpaid remains too high, but overpayment levels are now reducing.
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.