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1. Briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee: Adapting to Climate Change

   Briefing

   31 Jul 2009

   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.

2. Department of Education and Skills – Connexions Service for all Young People

   Report Value for money

   31 Mar 2004

   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 […]

3. Briefing for The House of commons: Performance of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

   Briefing

   20 Nov 2009

4. Regulating to protect consumers: Utilities, communications and financial services markets

   Press release

   20 Mar 2019

   This report assesses how well Ofwat, Ofgem, Ofcom and the FCA measure and report their performance in protecting consumer interests.

5. Briefing for Environmental Audit Committee: Export Credits Guarantee Department and sustainability

   Briefing

   1 Jul 2008

   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).

6. Implementing the UK’s Exit from the European Union: The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

   Press release

   20 Dec 2017

   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

7. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: progress with reducing risk at Sellafield

   Press release

   20 Jun 2018

   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.

8. Review for the Environmental Audit Committee: Renewable energy: options for scrutiny

   Briefing

   1 Jul 2008

   This review of renewable energy has been prepared in response to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee.

9. Letter to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee: British Waterways finances 2002-2012

   Briefing

   1 Dec 2007

   NAO Letter to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on British Waterways finances 2002-2012.

10. Investigation into the Department of Energy & Climate Change’s loans to the Green Deal Finance Company

    Press release

    14 Apr 2016

    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.

11. Review for Environmental Audit Committee: Transport and the environment: options for scrutiny

    Briefing

    1 May 2008

    Review on Transport and the environment: options for scrutiny, prepared in response to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee.

12. Investigation into the 2017 auction for low-carbon electricity generation contracts

    Press release

    16 May 2018

    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.

13. Review for Environmental Audit Committee: UK greenhouse gas emissions: measurement and reporting

    Briefing

    1 Mar 2008

    Review by the National Audit Office for the Environmental Audit Committee on UK greenhouse gas emissions and their measurement and reporting.

14. Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation

    Press release

    14 Apr 2016

    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.

15. Briefing for Environmental Audit Committee – NAO Review of European Union Emissions Trading Scheme

    Briefing

    20 Apr 2009

    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.

16. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency Accounts 2015-16

    Press release

    15 Jul 2016

    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.

17. Nuclear power in the UK

    Press release

    13 Jul 2016

    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.

18. Review for Environmental Audit Committee: Climate change levy and climate change agreements

    Briefing

    1 Aug 2007

    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.

19. Review of the Thames Tideway Tunnel

    Press release

    2 Mar 2017

    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.

20. Controlling the consumer-funded costs of energy policies: The Levy Control Framework

    Press release

    18 Oct 2016

    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.