The NAO has prepared this briefing for the Justice Select Committee in support of its inquiry into women offenders. The briefing looks specifically at the new funding arrangements for women’s centres in the community, which have been funded partly by the Ministry of Justice, the National Offender Management Service, and partly by probation trusts since 2009.
Review of a sample of the data systems underpinning the input and impact indicators in the Ministry of Justice’s Business Plan, Common Areas of Spend and wider management information.
This review was carried out on the 2012-15 Business Plan. Revised Business Plans were issued in June 2013.
Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, has today qualified the accounts of the Youth Justice Board (YJB).
Police forces in England and Wales could make savings by working together to improve their buying power for essential goods and services
The Ministry of Justice hosted a consultation on proposals outlined in Transforming Rehabilitation – a revolution in the way we manage offenders.
The NAO has responded to this consultation (February 2013).
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Ministry of Justice during 2011-12.
The Agency will find it more difficult to meet its savings targets now that some sentencing reforms designed to reduce the prison population have been dropped.
HMCTS has improved its ability to provide financial information on fines and penalty transactions but significant issues remain with key data systems.
Review of a sample of the data systems underpinning the input and impact indicators in the Ministry of Justice’s Business Plan, Common Areas of Spend and wider management information.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Home Office during 2011-12.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the 2011-12 accounts of the Serious Fraud Office in respect of the voluntary redundancy costs for the former Chief Executive Officer.
The use of confiscation orders to deny criminals the proceeds of their crimes is not proving to be value for money.
We publish the results of our investigation into the contracting out of language services in the justice system.
Review of a sample of the data systems underpinning the input and impact indicators in the Home Office’s Business Plan, Common Areas of Spend and wider management information.
The Comptroller and Auditor General, has today qualified the accounts of the Community Legal Service Fund and the Criminal Defence Service because of errors in payments to legal aid providers.
The EHRC has made significant improvements in its financial management leading the Comptroller and Auditor General to issue an unqualified audit opinion on its 2010-11 accounts.
This management report examines how the National Offender Management Service planned and is implementing the restructure of its headquarters.
The Home Office has improved the financial management of its core business but strengths at the centre are not being demonstrated in its ‘change programmes’.
The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified the 2010-11 accounts of the Legal Services Commission.
The new policing oversight framework has been in place for a year but already there are gaps in the system with the potential to undermine accountability both to the Home Office and the public.