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
The NAO is publishing a suite of short guides for the new Parliament, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons select committees and members of Parliament.
This investigation examines the extent to which departments have used consultants in
their work to prepare for exiting the EU.
This briefing describes the Civil Contingencies Secretariat’s contingency preparations for the UK exiting the EU without a deal.
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.
Read the key takeaways from our recent webinar or watch the recording to hear from the regulators who joined our panel.
We record government’s progress in ensuring health and social care supplies should the UK leave the EU without a deal.
Our report looks at how the Financial Conduct Authority is responding to changes in its regulatory powers and wider developments in the financial services sector.
This policy covers situations where National Audit Office employees need to raise a concern, and how to do this.
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.
Strategic shortcomings are undermining government’s aims to make the UK one of the world’s most innovative and attractive space economies.
This Departmental Overview looks at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) and summarises its performance during the year ended March 2016, together with our recent reports on it.
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.
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.
This review looks at HM Treasury’s processes in its analysis of the impact of leaving the European Union, and provides comparisons with other published studies.
This memorandum supports the Committee of Public Accounts’ inquiry into the award of the contracts by the Department for Transport.
The C&AG has issued a clean audit opinion, providing assurance to Parliament on DCMS’s 2024-25 financial statements.
We publish an annual Transparency Report on our audit quality. The report includes findings from external and internal inspection reviews of our audits. It gives details on the quality of all our audit work.
This report gives an overview of the approach taken by the Department for Education (DfE) to environmental sustainability.
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.