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  1. Early contracts for renewable electricity

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    The Government awarded, without competition, £16.6 billion worth of early contracts to eight renewable generation projects at risk of investment delay.

  3. HM Revenue and Customs: Progress on reducing costs

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    In 2011-12 HMRC maintained its performance while reducing staff and spending but it is too early to tell what the long-term impact of cost reduction will be.

  4. Evaluation in Government

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    Treasury expects all departments to evaluate the ex post impacts and costs of all their interventions, including spending, taxation and regulation. This activity should provide valuable information on the cost-effectiveness of government interventions, for the purposes of accountability and to learn lessons to improve current and future policies.

  6. Personal Independence Payment: early progress

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    The DWP has had to delay the Personal Independence Payment programme’s roll-out and reduce expected savings during this Spending Review period.

  7. Universal Credit: progress update

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    The DWP has reset Universal Credit on a sounder basis but at significant cost, by extending the time for implementation and choosing a more expensive approach.

  11. Out-of-hours GP services in England

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    Although some areas of the NHS in England are achieving value for money for out-of-hours GP services, this is not the case across the board.

  12. Managing and replacing the Aspire contract

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    There are serious risks to HMRC’s business if the programme to replace the Aspire contract fails to meet its objectives by June 2017, when the contract ends.

  13. The Ministry of Justice’s electronic monitoring contracts

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    This memorandum sets out the events surrounding the Ministry of Justice’s process to re-compete its electronic monitoring contracts and its subsequent decision to commission a forensic audit of these contracts

  14. Savings from operational PFI contracts

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    Progress on the Government’s initiative to achieve £1.5 billion worth of savings from operational PFI contracts.

  15. The New Homes Bonus

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    The NAO believes a review of the New Homes Bonus scheme is essential to ensure the Department understands the substantial financial risks to local authorities.

  16. Improving government procurement

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    The government’s procurement strategy has led to savings. But, a cultural shift is needed if government is to obtain all the benefits available.

  18. Equipment Plan 2013 – 2023

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    MOD’s procurement budget is now more stable, despite a £754m increase in the cost of the carriers, but there are still risks to the affordability of the equipment plan.

  19. The creation and sale of Northern Rock plc

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    The Treasury’s 2009 decision to split Northern Rock in two was reasonable at the time but the final net cost to the taxpayer could be some £2 billion.

  20. Managing the transition to the reformed health system

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    Although new organisations set up as part of the reformed health system were ready to start functioning on time, the transition to the system is not yet complete.