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HM Customs and Excise: The Misuse and Smuggling of Hydrocarbon Oils
Published on:In November 2001, Customs produced estimates for the first time of the revenue loss from frauds on petrol and diesel. Customs estimated that in 2000 the loss could be between £450 million and £980 million in the UK, compared to revenue receipts of £22.6 billion on oils duties. Of this, diesel frauds on the UK […]
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Improving Service Delivery: The Food Standards Agency
Published on:Executive Agencies can improve how they set targets and do more to ensure that their initiatives are leading to better delivery of services, Sir John Bourn, the Head of the National Audit Office reported today. He presented to Parliament four reports which assess how agencies are seeking to improve public services. Executive Agencies need to […]
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Progress in Implementing EU Exit
Published on:This is our second report on the progress Defra has made in preparing for EU Exit.
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Briefing for House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee: Performance of the Dept of Energy and Climate Change
Published on:Executive Summary
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Office of Water Services: Leakage and Water Efficiency
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that, since the 1995 drought, leakage in England and Wales has been reduced by some 1.8 million cubic metres a day, equivalent to the amount of water used daily by more than 12 million people. The National Audit Office examined how the Office […]
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Briefing for House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee: Performance of the Department of Energy and Climate Change 2008-09
Published on:This briefing has been prepared for the Energy and Climate Change Committee as an overview of the performance of the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the financial year 2008-09 and subsequent months.
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Briefing for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee: Performance of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2008-09
Published on:This briefing has been prepared for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee to provide an overview of the work and performance of the Department in the financial year 2008-09 and subsequent months.
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: progress with reducing risk at Sellafield
Published on:This report examines the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s role, its governance, and the complex challenges it faces in delivering its long-term mission; progress with reducing high hazard and risk at Sellafield, and limitations to faster progress; and the NDA and Sellafield Limited’s plans to ensure sustainable progress at Sellafield.
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Briefing for The House of commons: Performance of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Regulating to protect consumers: Utilities, communications and financial services markets
Published on:This report assesses how well Ofwat, Ofgem, Ofcom and the FCA measure and report their performance in protecting consumer interests.
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Briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee: Adapting to Climate Change
Published on:This briefing by the National Audit Office is in response to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee to provide an overview of government policy on adapting to climate change, including the implications of the Climate Change Act 2008 and the cross-government Adapting to Climate Change Programme, and progress across government Departments in identifying and managing risks from future climate change impacts.
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Implementing the UK’s Exit from the European Union: The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published on:The report focuses on how the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is preparing to exit from the EU. It is part of a series of NAO briefings on the key bodies in the centre of government and the major spending departments that have to deliver Exit programmes.
20 December 2017
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Briefing for Environmental Audit Committee: Export Credits Guarantee Department and sustainability
Published on:This briefing has been prepared by the National Audit Office (NAO) to assist the Environmental Audit Committee’s (EAC) inquiry into the Export Credit Guarantee Department (ECGD).
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Department of Education and Skills – Connexions Service for all Young People
Published on:Head of the National Audit Office Sir John Bourn today reported on the Connexions Service, concluding that it is a radical change in the delivery of advice and guidance to young people and is on target to meeting its major objective of reducing the proportion of 16- to 18-year olds not in education, employment or […]
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Investigation into the Department of Energy & Climate Change’s loans to the Green Deal Finance Company
Published on:The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Green Deal design not only failed to deliver any meaningful benefit, it increased suppliers’ costs – and therefore energy bills – in meeting their obligations through the ECO scheme.
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Review for the Environmental Audit Committee: Renewable energy: options for scrutiny
Published on:This review of renewable energy has been prepared in response to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee.
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Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation
Published on:The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Green Deal design not only failed to deliver any meaningful benefit, it increased suppliers’ costs – and therefore energy bills – in meeting their obligations through the ECO scheme.
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Letter to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee: British Waterways finances 2002-2012
Published on:NAO Letter to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on British Waterways finances 2002-2012.
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Investigation into the 2017 auction for low-carbon electricity generation contracts
Published on:This report sets out the history of Contracts for Difference and how the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy designed the 2017 auction, including the changes it made to the rules related to the capacity cap, and the impact these changes had.