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  1. BBC savings and reform

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    This report examines the BBC’s progress in delivering its savings and reform programme.

  3. A review of collaborative procurement across the public sector

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    The National Audit Office and the Audit Commission have today called for public bodies to work together much more effectively than they currently do to maximise savings from procurement activities.

  5. Business, Innovation and Skills: Helping over-indebted consumers

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    The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ (BIS’s) free face-to-face advice for people struggling with debt has helped more people than planned, at slightly less than the planned cost per person, and is highly regarded by those that use it. However, demand is now outstripping capacity.

  6. Private Finance Recommendations Database

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    Reports produced by the House of Commons’ Committee of Public Accounts (the PAC) following hearings based on our PFI and PPP investigations include nearly 1000 recommendations.

    We have collected these recommendations and the related Treasury responses into a PFI and PPP/Privatisation Recommendations database last updated: 19/06/2009.

  8. Financial relationships with third sector organisations: A Decision Support Tool

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    The Decision Support Tool for public bodies in England provides practical support to officials who are involved in making, or advising on, ‘real-life’ decisions about the design of appropriate funding relationships with third sector organisations.  It takes into account such issues as programme objectives, funding channels, duration of award, full cost recovery, EU state aid […]

  9. The BBC’s management of three major estate projects

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    The BBC Trust has today published an independent report prepared by the National Audit Office (NAO) on the BBC’s management of three major estates projects. These were the refurbishment and redevelopment of Broadcasting House in London, the construction of Pacific Quay in Glasgow and the Corporation’s forthcoming move to Salford Quays.

  10. Building the capacity of the Third Sector

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    A National Audit Office report has concluded that two programmes aimed at building capacity in the third sector have had a positive impact on frontline third sector organisations but have not yet demonstrated value for money. Both have suffered from administrative weaknesses and a lack of initial targets against which the effectiveness of the programmes […]

  12. Efficiency in government

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    This report identifies key issues government will need to consider when attempting to increase its efficiency.

  14. Review of the UK’s Competition Landscape

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    A National Audit Office review of the regime for overseeing markets and enforcing competition law in the UK has found that it is generally effective and well regarded by comparison with international equivalents. However, the NAO has found that the competition system as a whole must still address a number of challenges to function as […]

  17. HM Treasury: The nationalisation of Northern Rock

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    The NAO has reported that the nationalisation of Northern Rock in early 2008 offered the best prospect of protecting the taxpayers’ interests and was based on a sufficiently robust analysis of the options available. However, the Treasury was stretched to deal with a crisis of this nature and there were lessons to be learned. In […]