This Overview looks at the local government landscape during the last financial year and summarises both matters of likely interest to Parliament as well as our work with local authorities. The NAO prepares statutory guidance on how local auditors should meet their responsibilities.
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.
The condition of local roads in England is declining and the backlog to return them to a good state of repair is increasing.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the NAO has reported on the Whole of Government Accounts for 2021-22.
Our report examines whether local governance arrangements provide assurance that local authority spending achieves value and authorities are financially sustainable
Government can release resources and improve accountability by tailoring governance and audit requirements for small public bodies.
Government needs to ensure its growth plans for Cambridge are aligned with its £6-7bn investment in a new regional railway (East West Rail, Oxford to Cambridge), so it can maximise the economic benefits of the line, a new report by the National Audit Office says.
Our report aims to increase transparency by taking stock of what the Homes for Ukraine scheme has achieved to date, for what cost, and what can be learned.
The number of NHS and local government bodies with weaknesses in their arrangements for delivering value for money is increasing.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the NAO has reported on the 2020-21 Whole of Government Accounts.
A review of how NHS Health Checks are provided in England is needed to improve the system for preventing cardiovascular disease.
This report covers recent trends in pressures on children’s social care demand and activity and national and local government’s response.
Responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to the NAO in 2023.
This report examines government’s management of the Affordable Homes Programme since 2015
This Departmental Overview looks at the Department for Communities and Local Government and summarises its performance during the year ended March 2016, together with our recent reports on it.
This report examines efforts to address gender based violence, to support government’s target to halve violence against women and girls.
This guide has been produced to support the Levelling up, Housing & Communities Committee in its examination of the Department for Levelling up, Housing & Communities’ (DLUHC’s) spending and performance for 2021-22.
This investigation sets out how DLUHC is managing the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre programme.
Our report looks at whether the government is well positioned to achieve its drug strategy’s 10-year ambitions.
Responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to the NAO between April and December 2022.