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  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  9. How to audit artificial intelligence models

    Insight Opinion

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    In our ever-increasing digital and automatized world, certain buzzwords are becoming more centre stage in the public sector. One of them is “artificial intelligence”. While the concept, and development, of artificial intelligence is not new (artificial intelligence was first recognised as a formal discipline in the mid-1950s), it is a word that has been casually […]

  12. Managing the impact of Housing Benefit reform

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    DWP is working to manage the introduction of the housing benefit reforms and has a critical role to play in anticipating adverse consequences.

  13. 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.

  14. Supporting local economic growth

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    This report considers lessons DLUHC has learned from implementing local growth policies, and how it has applied them.

  15. BIS’s capital investment in science projects

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    The Department for Business, Skills and Innovation has not used good quality information to decide which science capital projects to invest in to optimise scientific and economic benefits.

  16. Good practice guidance: Fraud and Error

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    This guide uses the NAO’s insights to show what can be done to counter the risk of fraud and error.

  17. Achieving value for money for government’s environmental goals

    Insight Opinion

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    2021 was a big year for government’s commitments to the environment. The statutory target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 was backed up with a strategy and the Environment Bill gives legal force to nature recovery targets. The challenge now lies in turning targets and strategies into actions that will combat rising […]

  18. Mapping the Justice landscape 

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    This piece explains how the NAO uses spatial analytics to bring audit teams closer to the data and visualise the complex geographic relationships at work behind the scenes in the justice system.