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  3. Network Rail’s sale of railway arches

    Report Value for money

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    This report examines the value for money of Network Rail’s sale of a major part of its commercial real estate portfolio.

  4. Protecting consumers from scams, unfair trading and unsafe goods

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    The report examines the system protecting consumers from scams, unfair trading, and unsafe goods. BEIS has made progress since our 2011 review, but needs to do more, particularly in the context of the growth of e-commerce.

  5. A Short Guide to Commercial relationships

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    The NAO is publishing a suite of short guides for the new Parliament, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons select committees and members of Parliament.

  7. Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme

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    This report examines the performance, implementation, procurement and management of the Green Homes Grant scheme.

  8. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: progress with reducing risk at Sellafield

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    This report examines the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s role, its governance, and the complex challenges it faces in delivering its long-term mission; progress with reducing high hazard and risk at Sellafield, and limitations to faster progress; and the NDA and Sellafield Limited’s plans to ensure sustainable progress at Sellafield.

  9. Investigation into the government’s handling of the collapse of Carillion

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    On 15 January 2018, Carillion declared insolvency and the Official Receiver, an employee of the Insolvency Service, started to liquidate its assets and contracts. This report focuses on the role of the UK government in preparing for and managing the liquidation of Carillion.

  10. Local Enterprise Partnerships: census findings

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    This publication presents the results of our census of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). The census was conducted as part of our report Local Enterprise Partnerships, published in March 2016.

  13. A Short guide to Regulation

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    The NAO is publishing a suite of short guides for the new Parliament, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons select committees and members of Parliament.

  15. Developing new care models through NHS vanguards

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    This report examines whether the NHS is well placed to get value for money from its investment in developing new care models through vanguards.

  16. Ofsted’s inspection of schools

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    This report examines whether Ofsted’s approach to inspecting schools is providing value for money. We assessed Ofsted’s role, performance and impact.

  18. The UK competition regime

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    The newly-created Competition and Markets Authority has made significant progress in improving how the UK’s competition regime works, and it is now more coherent than before. Business awareness of competition law, however, is low and while it has improved the robustness of its enforcement casework, the regime has so far not produced a substantial flow of enforcement decisions or fines.

  19. Market Analytic Toolkit: for assessing public service markets

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    This toolkit is designed to guide those overseeing public service markets or assessing the effectiveness of these markets in terms of value for money and user outcomes. It helps government address a set of new challenges around its use of markets to deliver public services, including oversight, consumer protection, regulation and helping to achieve effective competition and innovative delivery.

  20. Financial services mis-selling: regulation and redress

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    The Financial Conduct Authority cannot know whether its activities are reducing the overall scale of financial services mis-selling to consumers. The most prominent example of mis-selling is Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). Between April 2011 and November 2015, firms paid out £22.2 billion in compensation to more than 12 million customers who had bought PPI.