Departments’ use of consultants to support preparations for EU Exit
Published on:This investigation examines the extent to which departments have used consultants in
their work to prepare for exiting the EU.
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Whole of Government Accounts 2009-10
Published on: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.
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The Treasury’s 2010-11 Accounts: the financial stability interventions
Published on: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.
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the 2010-11 accounts of the Science and Technology Facilities Council
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General, has limited the scope of his audit opinion on the 2010-11 accounts of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
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Ministry of Defence: The Rapid Procurement of Capability to Support Operations
Published on:The National Audit Office report on Urgent Operational Requirements (UORs), whereby the Ministry of Defence (MoD) uses a streamlined version of its procedures to support operations by buying equipment quickly, finds that UORs are a necessary and increasingly important feature of operations and that the Department has shown impressive ingenuity to deliver urgent requirements to […]
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Evaluating the government balance sheet: borrowing
Published on: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.
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Fracking for shale gas in England
Published on:This report sets out the facts about the government’s support of shale gas development in England.
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Investigation into Just Solutions International
Published on: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.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Financial Management Report 2011
Published on: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.
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The government’s approach to test and trace in England – interim report
Published on:This interim report provides an overview of test and trace services for addressing COVID-19 in England.
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Implementing the UK’s Exit from the European Union: The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published on:The National Audit Office has today published a briefing describing how the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), which has one of the largest and most complex EU Exit portfolios in government, is preparing to deliver a successful exit from the EU.
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Exiting the EU: supplying the health and social care sectors
Published on:We record government’s progress in ensuring health and social care supplies should the UK leave the EU without a deal.
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Investigation into the Department for International Development’s approach to tackling fraud
Published on:The NAO has conducted an investigation into DFID’s approach to tackling fraud, following an increase in the potential risks after the government committed to spend 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid.
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Investigation: clinical correspondence handling at NHS Shared Business Services
Published on:The NAO has investigated how NHS Shared Business Services handled its backlog of unprocessed clinical correspondence.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Managing front line delivery costs
Published on:Defra needs good cost information to scrutinise and challenge its arm’s length bodies, so that it can reduce costs with minimal disruption to frontline services.
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Department for International Development: investing through CDC
Published on: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.
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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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Core skills at HM Revenue and Customs
Published on: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.
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The BBC’s commercial activities: a landscape review
Published on: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.
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Realising the benefits of the St Helena Airport project
Published on: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.