Search results for 'Energy and environment'
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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 Environmental Audit Committee: UK greenhouse gas emissions: measurement and reporting
Published on:Review by the National Audit Office for the Environmental Audit Committee on UK greenhouse gas emissions and their measurement and reporting.
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Review for Environmental Audit Committee: Transport and the environment: options for scrutiny
Published on:Review on Transport and the environment: options for scrutiny, prepared in response to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee.
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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.
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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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Briefing for Environmental Audit Committee – NAO Review of European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
Published on:This briefing by the National Audit Office has been carried out in response to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee to provide an update on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme covering developments since the Committee last reported on this topic in 2007.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency Accounts 2015-16
Published on:Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), has qualified his opinion on the 2015-16 accounts of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Nuclear power in the UK
Published on:This report looks at some of the main electricity system challenges the UK faces in the next two decades, and the aims and responsibilities of the Department of Energy & Climate Change.
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Review for Environmental Audit Committee: Climate change levy and climate change agreements
Published on:In April 2006 the National Audit Office published a briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee on UK climate change policy. This review was produced to inform and assist the Committee’s further work on climate change, and set out options for further Committee scrutiny.
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Controlling the consumer-funded costs of energy policies: The Levy Control Framework
Published on:The government has missed opportunities to exploit the full potential of the Levy Control Framework and this has contributed to decisions which have not secured value for money.
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Review of the Thames Tideway Tunnel
Published on:This report examines the evidence base supporting the decision to proceed with the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a tunnel running 25 kilometres from Acton to Abbey Mills, as well as progress achieved to date.