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  1. Departmental Overview 2015-16: Department for International Development

    Overview Departmental overview

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    This guide is designed to provide a quick and accessible overview of the Department for International Development and focuses in particular on where we believe the Department’s performance could be improved, using examples from our published work.

  2. The UK Border

    Report Value for money

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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.

  3. Realising the benefits of the St Helena Airport project

    Report Value for money

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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.

  4. Evaluating the government balance sheet: borrowing

    Report Value for money

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    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.

  5. Resetting major programmes

    Insight Lessons learned

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    This report uses our experience of auditing programmes to draw together insights to help decision-makers determine whether they should reset a programme and how to increase the chances of a reset succeeding.

  6. Investigation into Just Solutions International

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    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.

  7. About us

    The National Audit Office (NAO) is the UK’s independent public spending watchdog. We support Parliament in holding government to account and we help improve public services through our high-quality audits.

  8. Guide to corporate finance in the public sector

    Insight Good practice guides

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    This guide addresses the complex topic of corporate finance in the public sector and includes key questions to ask when scrutinising corporate finance activities.

  9. Responding to crises

    Report Value for money

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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%.

  10. The Customs Declaration Service

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    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

  11. BBC Group Accounts 2024-25

    Report Financial audit

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    The C&AG has issued a clean audit opinion, providing assurance to Parliament on BBC Group’s 2024-25 financial statements.