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  2. Tax measures to encourage economic growth

    Report Value for money

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    Although government provides billions in tax reliefs each year to encourage growth, it does not monitor or evaluate them closely enough.

  3. Department for Business and Trade 2024-25

    Overview Departmental overview

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    The Department for Business and Trade is a department for economic growth. In 2024-25, DBT spent a total of £2.15 billion (including financing) in net expenditure.

  4. Northern Powerhouse Rail

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    Northern Powerhouse Rail’s success is dependent on better cross-government working and stronger ties to the government’s economic strategy.

  5. Supporting local economic growth

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    This report considers lessons DLUHC has learned from implementing local growth policies, and how it has applied them.

  6. Financial services regulation: Adapting to change

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    Our report looks at how the Financial Conduct Authority is responding to changes in its regulatory powers and wider developments in the financial services sector.

  9. Regulating for growth

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    This report examines whether government and regulators are aligned in their growth ambitions, and the efficacy of recent growth initiatives.

  10. HM Treasury 2024-25

    Overview Departmental overview

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    In 2024/25, the Treasury spent £2,586 million. Our report reviews how this money was spent, as well as risks, resilience and productivity.

  13. Increasing construction skills

    Work in progress

    Summer 2026

    This study will look at whether government is well-placed to secure value for money in delivering the construction skills required by employers.

  14. HM Treasury 2023-24

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    This report provides an introduction to HM Treasury and our examination of its spending and performance.

  15. Department for Business and Trade 2023-24

    Overview Departmental overview

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    This report provides an introduction to the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and our examination of its spending and performance.

  17. Business support schemes

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    This report examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s management of its business support schemes.

  18. DSIT’s investment in research infrastructure

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    Background to the report The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is responsible for “positioning the UK at the forefront of global scientific and technological advancement” and believes six ‘frontier technologies’ will have a particularly important role in stimulating economic growth. Availability of research infrastructure – facilities used by scientists and industry to conduct […]

  19. Environmental regulation

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    This NAO report focuses on how Defra and the regulators carry out their duties in practice and sets out recommendations for them to consider.