Financial sustainability of local authorities 2014
Published on:Local authorities have worked hard to manage reductions in government funding, but the DCLG needs to be better informed about the situation across England.
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Exiting the EU: The financial settlement – follow-up report
Published on:This report aims to provide greater clarity on the financial settlement in advance of the ‘meaningful vote’.
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Children in care
Published on:The Department for Education is not meeting its objectives to improve the quality of care and the stability of placements for children in care.
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The Impact of Funding Reductions on Local Authorities
Published on:Local authorities have worked hard to manage reductions in government funding, but the DCLG needs to be better informed about the situation across England.
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Funding and structures for local economic growth
Published on:It has not yet been demonstrated that funding mechanisms for supporting local economic growth are capable of delivering value for money.
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Central government’s communication and engagement with local government
Published on:Central government needs to have better engagement with local government, particularly as more services are devolved.
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The East of England Development Agency financial statements 2011-12
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the 2011-12 financial statements of the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) because of irregular ex-gratia payments, totalling £51,000, made by the Agency to its staff.
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PFI in housing
Published on:The use of PFI by local authorities to improve housing, usually in areas with a high need for housing and where stock condition is particularly poor, has had a measure of success. However, risks to value for money of the programme have not been managed.
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Alternative asylum accommodation will cost more than hotels
Published on:Government’s plans for asylum accommodation will cost more than using hotels, and large sites are housing fewer people than planned.
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Systems for managing conflicts of interest in the civil service not being implemented consistently
Published on:Gaps in how public bodies manage conflicts of interest among staff pose a risk to government’s ability to perform its functions objectively.
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Tackling problem debt
Published on:This report aims to evaluate and conclude on HM Treasury’s overall approach to over-indebtedness.
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Council Tax Support
Published on:Not all local authorities’ Council Tax support scheme will achieve the objectives outlined by the Department of Communities and Local Government.
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Cloud services: asking the right questions
Published on:Cloud services’ can bring cost and performance benefits. But they can also bring new challenges and risks. To help leaders oversee decision-making and implementation of cloud services, we recently published ‘Guidance for audit committees on cloud services’. The magazine, Public Sector Executive, invited us to outline the issues in the article The National Audit Office’s guide […]
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SEND reforms need to address home to school transport pressures
Published on:Our report looks at why home to school transport is one of the fastest growing areas of spending for local authorities in England.
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Maintaining strategic infrastructure: roads
Published on:The lack of predictability of funding for highways authorities has practical implications for road networks and may lead to increased costs in the long term.
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Progress report on the Regional Growth Fund
Published on:Improvements have been made to the running of the Regional Growth Fund, but there is still a significant amount of public money to allocate through the Fund.
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DWP begins to make headway tackling benefit fraud and error
Published on:A new NAO report finds that the proportion of benefit expenditure overpaid remains too high, but overpayment levels are now reducing.
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Reducing modern slavery
Published on:Until the government is able to establish effective oversight of the modern slavery system as a whole, it will not be able to significantly reduce the prevalence of modern slavery or show that it is achieving value for money.
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The Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report on the 2010-11 House of Commons Members Accounts
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his opinion on the 2010-11 House of Commons Members Accounts because information on MPs whose expense claims are under investigation by the police was not made available for audit.
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Small businesses evading tax leave HMRC billions out of pocket
Published on:The UK is losing billions of pounds a year due to tax evasion by small businesses, which can easily exploit weaknesses in government systems.