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  1. Department for International Development: investing through CDC

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    The Department for International Development has improved its oversight of CDC and has directed it to address many of the weaknesses previously identified by Parliament. However, it remains a significant challenge for CDC to demonstrate its ultimate objective of creating and making a lasting difference to people’s lives in some of the world’s poorest places.

  2. Realising the benefits of the St Helena Airport project

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    The St Helena airport’s planned opening date in May 2016 has been postponed as outstanding safety concerns are addressed, potentially adding to the project’s cost and delaying its benefits.

  3. The BBC’s commercial activities: a landscape review

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    This report, our first on this subject, is a landscape review of the BBC’s commercial activities, setting out how the BBC organizes these activities and the key risks and challenges they currently face.

  4. Core skills at HM Revenue and Customs

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    HM Revenue and Customs will have to make sure its staff have the right skills if the Department is to succeed in cutting its running costs by 25 per cent by 2014-2015 and bringing in each year an extra £7 billion of tax revenue.

  5. The UK Border

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    This report provides Parliament with insights on the issues and challenges for government’s management of the border in light of the UK’s planned departure from the European Union.

  6. Capability in the Civil Service

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    Government has gaps in its capability and must do more to develop the skills needed. It is making plans, but the scale of the challenge means greater urgency is needed.

  7. Tackling serious and organised crime

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    This report examines whether the government tackles serious and organised crime in an effective and coherent way.

  8. The New British Embassy in Berlin

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    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 […]

  9. Investigation into Verify

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    An investigation into Verify, the government’s identity verification platform. It examines its performance, costs and benefits.

  10. Responding to crises

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    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%.

  11. E20: renewing the EastEnders set

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    This report examines whether the BBC has managed E20 in a way that is likely to achieve value for money.

  12. Taxpayer support for UK banks: FAQs

    Between 2007 and 2010, HM Treasury made a series of large financial interventions to support the financial stability of UK banking. This page sets out the work the NAO has done on the banking interventions and answers some frequently asked questions.

  13. Online Fraud

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    Online fraud is now the most commonly experienced crime in England and Wales, but has been overlooked by government, law enforcement and industry.