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).
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.
This review of renewable energy has been prepared in response to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee.
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.
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.
NAO Letter to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on British Waterways finances 2002-2012.
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.
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.
Review by the National Audit Office for the Environmental Audit Committee on UK greenhouse gas emissions and their measurement and reporting.
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.
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.
Review on Transport and the environment: options for scrutiny, prepared in response to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee.
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.
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.
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.
This briefing responds to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee. It examines the emissions forecasts (hereafter referred to as projections”) that informed the Climate Change Programme Review carried out between September 2004 and March 2006 (referred to here as the 2006 Review).
This briefing is intended to facilitate the Environmental Audit Committee’s further work on climate change.
The House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) recommended that the National Audit Office (NAO) carry out an analysis of recent Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIAs) to assess the extent to which they reflect a new requirement to consider environmental and social impacts. This briefing responds to the Committee’s request.
This briefing paper is provided in response to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee that the National Audit Office provide information on local authorities and climate change.
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has not achieved value for money for its £100 million spend on the second competition for government financial support for carbon capture storage.