Environmental regulation
Published on:This NAO report focuses on how Defra and the regulators carry out their duties in practice and sets out recommendations for them to consider.
This NAO report focuses on how Defra and the regulators carry out their duties in practice and sets out recommendations for them to consider.
This report examines how far the Ministry of Defence has embedded environmental sustainability in estate management, procurement, governance and policy-making.
We investigated the Ministry of Defence’s progress with submarine disposal and in implementing the projects needed to make this work.
The C&AG has qualified his audit opinion on the 2018-19 accounts of the Ministry of Defence.
This report reviews the robustness of assumptions underpinning the Ministry of Defence’s 2020–2030 Equipment Plan.
This report assesses the Ministry of Defence’s approach to reducing and reforming its civilian workforce.
This report examines lessons from our work on major programmes, including transport, defence and energy programmes.
We look at the government’s long-term ambition “to create a nation more resilient to future flood and coastal erosion risk” and, in the more immediate term, whether Defra and EA are delivering value for money after two years of the capital programme.
This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.
The C&AG has qualified his audit opinion on the 2017-18 Resource Accounts.
This investigation looks at the centralisation and performance of national security vetting services.
Public sector bodies could avoid £500 million in costs over five years if they improve how they procure common goods and services.
This landscape report aims to help Parliament better understand the complexities of the Defence Nuclear Enterprise by describing how the Ministry of Defence needs to bring together its programmes, including production of the new deterrent submarines, to provide a continuous at sea deterrent.
This report examines whether the government tackles serious and organised crime in an effective and coherent way.
This report examines how effectively the Cabinet Office coordinates the 2016–2021 National Cyber Security Programme.
This report reviews whether the Ministry of Defence has an effective approach to developing the capability of its regular forces, and how it is adapting to meet the new challenges.
Gareth Davies uses the NAO’s insights to outline what government needs to do to make public money work harder
Strategic shortcomings are undermining government’s aims to make the UK one of the world’s most innovative and attractive space economies.
In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, said government can provide people with better public services despite the challenging fiscal backdrop.
The affordability of the Ministry of Defence’s Equipment Plan.