The shielding programme was a swift government wide response to identify and protect clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people against COVID-19. Our recent report on Protecting and supporting the clinically extremely vulnerable during lockdown, shows how government quickly recognised the need to provide food, medicines and basic care to those CEV people shielding. This had to […]
This investigation examines DHSC’s performance in managing PPE contracts. It is a factual account of what has happened since November 2020.
This report provides a summary of the UK government’s response to COVID-19 to date.
Read the key takeaways and watch the recording of our 2025 regulations webinar on building trust in markets.
A new NAO report examines if the Department for Transport has delivered value for money from its support to local bus services outside of London.
A new report from the National Audit Office finds that government has made limited progress on combatting antimicrobial resistance.
This investigation provides an account of how public money was used to increase the number of ventilators available to the NHS.
Gareth Davies, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has reported on the 2024-25 accounts of the Department for Business and Trade.
This guide helps audit and risk committee members to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on their organisations.
This report sets out the facts about government preparing the NHS and adult social care in England for COVID-19.
This investigation looks at the British Business Bank’s approval of Greensill Capital’s access to government business support schemes.
This is the second NAO report on government’s approach to test and trace services in England.
This investigation sets out how the Department for Education set up and implemented the free school meals voucher scheme.
UKRI should strengthen its approach to taking bolder decisions and address data challenges to maximise value for money for the taxpayer.
Examining whether DfE is achieving value for money through its funding to support the attainment of disadvantaged children in England.
Like governments around the world, ours has committed unprecedented amounts of public money to the fight against coronavirus. By the end of 2020, this reached £271 billion in the UK and will continue to increase. As the UK’s independent public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office has been tracking the Government’s pandemic spending commitments, reporting […]
We estimate that fraud & error cost the taxpayer £55-81 billion in 2023-24. This report introduces impact of fraud & error on public funds.
The cyber threat to UK government is severe; government must act now to protect its own operations and key public services.
This report looks at how effectively government met the needs of clinically extremely vulnerable through the shielding programme.
This report examines whether the government secured financial sustainability across the local authority sector during COVID-19.