Financial management in government
Published on:Stronger financial management will be needed in departments if they are to speed up the restructuring of service delivery.
Stronger financial management will be needed in departments if they are to speed up the restructuring of service delivery.
The Government’s first sale of shares in Lloyds Banking Group was managed very effectively by United Kingdom Financial Investments Limited.
We published two reports today – Following the discovery of widespread and deep-rooted weaknesses in the government’s management of contracts it is starting to improve how it manages its contracts.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s systems for recording and challenging claimed savings at Sellafield give moderate assurance of reported overall savings since 2009-10.
The new military flying training is 6 years delayed and there is much to do if the MoD is to get the planned benefits from its contractor.
Defra, the Rural Payments Agency and Government Digital Service have not worked together effectively to deliver the Common Agricultural Policy Delivery Programme.
The Department was successful in floating Royal Mail. But its approach was marked by deep caution, the price of which was borne by the taxpayer.
Mistakes in the original procurement and contract management of an IT system, designed to extract data from GP practices, contributed to losses of public funds, through asset write-offs and settlements with suppliers.
The Cabinet Office will have to work with other government departments to ensure that the full benefits of its shared services strategy are realised.
The Home Office spent at least £830 million between 2003 and 2015 on the e-borders programme and its successors, but has failed, so far, to deliver the full vision. We cannot, therefore view e-borders as having delivered value for money.
In its sale of the 4G radio spectrum the Office of Communications (Ofcom) achieved its objective of maintaining a competitive market with a number of competing providers.
There is wide variation in the extent to which £79 billion in central funding allocated to local health bodies differs from target allocations that are based on relative need.
• This is NAO’s first report on funding since the 2013 health reforms took effect. Where possible comparisons have been made with funding under the previous system set out in a 2011 NAO report.
Local authorities have worked hard to manage reductions in government funding, but the DCLG needs to be better informed about the situation across England.
The Department for Education is not meeting its objectives to improve the quality of care and the stability of placements for children in care.
Local authorities have worked hard to manage reductions in government funding, but the DCLG needs to be better informed about the situation across England.
Large-scale infrastructure spending by the private sector over ten years or more will increase consumer utility bills but government and regulators do not know by how much or whether the bills will be affordable.
All three projects examined by the NAO have experienced significant delays stemming from a range of problems.
The NAO has highlighted five risks to the value for money of some national infrastructure projects.
The Government Finance Profession’s Finance Leadership Group has published a paper with support from the National Audit Office.
The MOD decision to reduce the size of the regular Army and increase the number of trained Army reserves was taken without appropriate testing of feasibility or evaluation of risk.