Investigation into Verify
Published on:An investigation into Verify, the government’s identity verification platform. It examines its performance, costs and benefits.
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Managing the BBC’s pay-bill
Published on:This report is a broad review of the BBC’s approach to pay.
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Investigation into overpayments of Carer’s Allowance
Published on:This investigation examines the recent increase in identified errors in Carer’s Allowance and attempts to recover overpayments.
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Whole of Government Accounts 2016-17
Published on:The Whole of Government Accounts consolidates the accounts of over 7,000 bodies across the public sector, including central and local government and public corporations such as the Bank of England, to produce an accounts-based picture of the UK’s public finances.
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Responding to crises
Published on:The Department for International Development’s spending on humanitarian interventions has almost trebled between 2010-11 and 2014-15 to more than £1 billion per year, rising as a share of its total budget from 6% to 14%.
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Online Fraud
Published on:Online fraud is now the most commonly experienced crime in England and Wales, but has been overlooked by government, law enforcement and industry.
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Financial management
Published on:The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has improved the maturity of its financial management in a number of areas, but the NAO has not been able to conclude that the Department is achieving value for money.
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Implementing the UK’s exit from the European Union: Infrastructure and Projects Authority
Published on: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 Infrastructure and Projects Authority.
24 November 2017
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the 2009-10 accounts of the UK Statistics Authority
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the 2009-10 accounts of the UK Statistics Authority owing to the Authority spending more cash than the authorized limit set by Parliament.
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The Customs Declaration Service
Published on:HMRC has made progress in developing the new customs system, which was part of its existing programme, but it may need to be ready much earlier than originally planned if there is no agreement extending timescales on the transition to any new customs arrangements
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Assessing the impact of proposed new policies
Published on:Impact Assessments, used to assess the need for and the likely impact of proposed government policy interventions, do not yet consistently provide a sound basis for assessing the merits of different policy proposals. Further improvement in the quality and use of Impact Assessments is needed to achieve value for money.
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Financial management of the European Union budget in 2014: a briefing for the Committee of Public Accounts
Published on:This briefing on financial management of the EU budget has been prepared for the UK Committee of Public Accounts, drawing exclusively from published material.
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The new generation electronic monitoring programme
Published on:The case for a huge expansion of electronic monitoring using GPS was unproven, but the Ministry of Justice pursued an overly ambitious and high risk strategy anyway. Ultimately it has not delivered.
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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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Ministry of Defence 2015-16 accounts
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the Ministry of Defence’s 2015-16 accounts.
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The New British Embassy in Berlin
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that the Private Finance Initiative deal for the new British Embassy in Berlin is likely to provide a suitable building at a price slightly lower than a comparable conventional procurement. The contract provides for the construction of a new Embassy building and its […]
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Briefing for Environmental Audit Committee – NAO Review of European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
Published on: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.
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The sale of student loans
Published on:This report considers the value for money of the sale of student loans that entered repayment between 2002 & 2006.
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The BBC’s management of its coverage of major sporting and music events: review by the Comptroller and Auditor General presented to the BBC Trust’s Finance and Compliance Committee, 13 January 2010
Published on:The BBC Trust today (28 January 2010) published an independent report commissioned from the National Audit Office on the BBC’s management of its coverage of major sporting and music events. The NAO review looked at the effectiveness of the BBC’s management of its coverage of major sporting and music events, once the decision to cover […]
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Review of the UK’s Competition Landscape
Published on:A National Audit Office review of the regime for overseeing markets and enforcing competition law in the UK has found that it is generally effective and well regarded by comparison with international equivalents. However, the NAO has found that the competition system as a whole must still address a number of challenges to function as […]