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The first in a series of blogs looking at the Commercial Lifecycle covers data.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his opinion on the financial statements of Defence Equipment & Support.
Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), has qualified his audit opinion on the MOD’s accounts for the sixth year running.
The risks to the affordability of the Ministry of Defence Equipment Plan are greater than at any point since reporting began in 2012.
2021 was a big year for government’s commitments to the environment. The statutory target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 was backed up with a strategy and the Environment Bill gives legal force to nature recovery targets. The challenge now lies in turning targets and strategies into actions that will combat rising […]
Responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to the NAO between April and December 2022.
The NAO is publishing a suite of short guides, one for each government department, to assist House of Commons Select Committees.
The Ministry of Defence’s strategy for improving its financial management has put its finances on a sounder footing and is delivering results, but there are still considerable challenges ahead, including delivering the savings already removed from budget allocations.
In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, championed effective innovation as a way to tackle the ongoing challenge of rising demand for stretched public services.
MOD has made good progress stabilising the equipment programme but needs to set out how a bespoke trading entity will transform Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) into the leading defence acquisition organisation by 2017.
Responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) and Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) requests made to the NAO in 2024.
The repurchase of the MoD’s military housing estate in 2024 puts a stop to what would have been billions of pounds of further lost value.
This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Ministry of Defence during 2013-14.
The Ministry of Defence has made significant improvements in its management of and accounting for assets held on its inventory systems. However, the Department recognizes that it still faces significant challenges.
We are delighted to announce that Verity Prime and Laura Lucking have joined the NAO as our new Executive Directors, as a job-share.
The Department has made good progress since we last reported on Carrier Strike, however it still has a lot to do to meet its targets at the end of 2020.
This memorandum has been prepared to support the Committee of Public Accounts’ consideration of the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) provision of accommodation to its service personnel.
This report examines the performance of the Ministry of Defence in delivering the F-35 programme compared to its aims.
The MoD’s current controls for how it manages two major military programmes on behalf of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are clear.