Departmental Overview: Department for International Development
Published on:This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.
This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.
This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his opinion on the regularity of the Department for Work and Pensions’ financial statements due to material levels of fraud and error in benefit expenditure.
The College of Policing’s 2023-24 accounts have been disclaimed after they failed to properly manage a transition to new accounting systems
This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.
This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.
The NAO examines central government’s approach to the funding of local authorities as they deal with reduced funding without reducing services.
Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has qualified his audit opinion in respect of two years of financial statements for Firebuy Ltd, covering 2010-11 and the short period in 2011-12 up to the closure of the company in July 2011.
The provision of adequate adult social care poses a significant public service challenge. Demand for care is rising while public spending is falling.
In June 2011, the National Audit Office reported on the system for enforcing consumer law and the Government subsequently made a series of reforms to the consumer landscape. This update report summarises recent changes and sets out the proposed benefits to consumers, businesses and taxpayers as well as the possible risks to be managed.
The Programme launch has been successful, however key risks remain such as the planned delivery of new homes towards the end of the programme period.
In January of this year, I took on senior level responsibility for leading the NAO’s people agenda as we reviewed and reset our strategy. I quickly recognised that that this was to be a significant undertaking for the organisation, with much work to do if we are to become the exemplar employer that we aspire […]
Data analytics has become an integral part of the audit process. And where a few years ago it was an area where we were exploring and creating tactical solutions to problems, today the NAO, like many organisations, has developed a strong capability and is making significant progress towards the widespread adoption of data analytics across […]
A report from the pages of the House of Commons Speakers Committee. The Committee’s report presents two pieces of work by the National Audit Office covering the Electoral Commission and the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
Report summarising the National Audit Office’s (NAO) investigation into the provision of supported housing in England
The Help to Buy equity loan scheme is improving access to mortgage finance, but the scheme’s costs will be substantial.
There is wide variation in the extent to which £79 billion in central funding allocated to local health bodies differs from target allocations that are based on relative need.
• This is NAO’s first report on funding since the 2013 health reforms took effect. Where possible comparisons have been made with funding under the previous system set out in a 2011 NAO report.
This investigation examines the Home Office’s response to suspected cheating in the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC).
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Communities and Local Government during 2011-12.
Review of a sample of the data systems underpinning the input and impact indicators in the Department for Communities and Local Government’s Business Plan, Common Areas of Spend and wider management information.