This report provides an update on HMRC’s progress with the Customs Declaration Service (CDS) since July 2017. We consider the deliverability of the CDS programme and highlight the risks and issues HMRC needs to manage to fully implement CDS by January 2019.
Fraudsters sometimes use the names of National Audit Office (NAO) staff, including the NAO Chair, the head of the NAO the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG), or derivatives of “National Audit Office”, in an attempt to defraud people. They may also use our address on their letters to try and trick you: One e-mail scam […]
In this guide we highlight National Audit Office reports which illustrate the different approaches departments take to initiating projects. We show how they develop a realistic understanding of the risks, benefits and deliverability of projects.
Our study evaluates how far the government has an effective system for measuring progress towards its environmental objectives.
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that the United Kingdom made a major and vital contribution to the successful NATO operation in Kosovo. And the Ministry of Defence’s financial management of their military operations in Kosovo represented a clear improvement over that achieved in Bosnia. Against the background of […]
This report summarises our progress over the second year of the 2015-2018 Diversity & Inclusion strategy. As part of our commitment to the Public Sector Equality Duty we also publish equality data in a separate report.
This briefing has been prepared for the International Development Committee to provide an overview of the work and performance of the Department for International Development in the financial year 2008‑09 and subsequent months.
The National Audit Office has today published a briefing describing how the centre of government is overseeing and taking forward implementation of the UK’s exit from the European Union. the briefing focuses in particular on the coordination role of the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU).
17 November 2017
Reported fraud in Employment Programmes is low despite past flaws such as in the New Deal. New improvement controls are better, yet risks remain.
Public and private borrowing are high, kept affordable by record low interest rates, and quantitative easing continues ten years after the crisis it responded to.
This investigation examines the extent to which departments have used consultants in
their work to prepare for exiting the EU.
NAO briefing for the Foreign Affairs Committee on the Management of Exchange Rate Risk by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
This report sets out the facts about the government’s support of shale gas development in England.
The NAO has published its report on the 2010-11 accounts of the Skills Funding Agency.
The Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) are the very first audited set of accounts showing in one place the financial position of the whole public sector. However, the NAO considers that the picture is incomplete.
There was an estimated net loss of £1.1m when Just Solutions International, the commercial arm of the National Offender Management Service, set up to sell consultancy advice abroad, was closed in September 2015.
This interim report provides an overview of test and trace services for addressing COVID-19 in England.
This Report on HM Treasury’s Resource Accounts for 2010-11 sets out the scale and costs of the Government’s financial interventions as at 31 March 2011.
Despite the fact that the Defra has made improvements in its financial management, the NAO cannot yet conclude that the Department is achieving value for money in its financial management activity.