The Act requires the NAO Board to agree a Code of Practice setting out in detail how the relationship between the Board and the Comptroller and Auditor General will work in practice.
The British public’s generosity enabled the government to move at speed to temporarily support 131,000 Ukrainians seeking refuge from war.
Government needs to ensure its growth plans for Cambridge are aligned with its £6-7bn investment in a new regional railway (East West Rail, Oxford to Cambridge), so it can maximise the economic benefits of the line, a new report by the National Audit Office says.
The £1.4 billion funding could result in 41,000 extra full-time equivalent private sector jobs but thousands more could have been created from the same resources.
Government can release resources and improve accountability by tailoring governance and audit requirements for small public bodies.
Explore the broad trends identified by our report Homelessness and build a richer understanding of what they mean for different parts of the country.
Residential care costs for looked-after children have almost doubled in five years driven by rising demand and limited placements.
The NAO have investigated concerns that online sellers outside the EU are avoiding charging VAT.
Although some areas of the NHS in England are achieving value for money for out-of-hours GP services, this is not the case across the board.
G4S and Serco, two of the new providers awarded Home Office contracts to provide accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK, struggled to get the contracts up and running.
This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we have produced covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Communities and Local Government during 2010-2011.
Up to 60% of buildings with dangerous cladding have not yet been identified & remediation for buildings within government’s portfolio is slow.
The NAO has today published a review of three formula-based grants from central government to fund local public services.
This report draws out good practice lessons from three local improvement projects. It has been produced jointly by the National Audit Office, Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation.
This report examines government’s management of the Affordable Homes Programme since 2015.
This study examines how the Home Office handled the impact of its immigration policies on the Windrush generation.
Home Office’s quick acquisition of the Northeye site for asylum accommodation led to it cutting corners and paying more than it needed to.
In response to questions raised by the House of Commons Health Committee in late 2013 and wider Parliamentary interest, we conducted an investigation into five specific concerns about NHS Property Services. Our investigation established the facts relating to these concerns.
May 2014
Briefing note to support the APPG for Cycling and Walking’s inquiry into DfT’s forthcoming Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy 2.
Since we first published our Framework to review programmes in 2017 there has been no let-up in NAO reports on major projects and programmes, most recently on Crossrail, the Emergency Services Network and the Stonehenge by-pass road. From the need to manage the risks of untried approaches to signs warning of unrealistic cost estimates, this […]