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  3. Sizewell C

    Work in progress

    Spring 2026

    The study will support transparency and Parliamentary scrutiny of Sizewell C, and will review DESNZ’s current and future work on the project.

  6. Northern Powerhouse Rail

    Report Value for money

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    Northern Powerhouse Rail’s success is dependent on better cross-government working and stronger ties to the government’s economic strategy.

  8. 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.

  9. The DECA: Understanding challenges in delivering project objectives

    Insight Good practice guides

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    The Delivery Environment Complexity Analytic (DECA) is a tool developed by the National Audit Office (NAO) to provide a high level overview of the challenges, complexity and risks to delivery of a project, programme, policy or area of work.

  10. High Speed Two: Euston

    Report Value for money

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    The government should use the two-year pause on new construction work at HS2 Euston to develop a design that is affordable, deliverable and value for money, according to a new National Audit Office report.

  11. Making public money work harder

    Insight Lessons learned

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    We have used our insights to highlight the biggest opportunities for spending public money more efficiently and effectively.

  13. Framework to review portfolios

    Insight Good practice guides

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    This framework has a set of questions to assess whether a portfolio is achieving value for money

  14. The Transpennine Route Upgrade Programme

    Report Value for money

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    This study will assess whether the Department and Network Rail’s are in a position to deliver the Transpennine Route Upgrade successfully.

  16. Delivering programmes at speed? What you need to consider

    Insight Opinion

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    Ambulances need to travel fast! Ambulance drivers must take risks that regular drivers do not. This includes running red lights and travelling at high speeds through busy roads. However, to avoid accidents, precautions are taken to manage risks. The driver is trained, there are flashing blue lights and loud sirens. Delivering programmes at speed requires […]

  17. Delivering programmes at speed

    Insight Lessons learned

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    Insights to help decision-makers determine when or how a programme should be delivered at speed.

  18. What should we ask ourselves to break the cycle of poor programme performance?

    Insight Opinion

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    We are keen to support those responsible for both delivering and overseeing government programmes. In that spirit, we today publish our Framework to review programmes summarising what we ask when auditing major programmes. It draws from our experience of around 200 studies and includes examples of what we have seen. Our work provides insights on […]

  20. The Ajax programme

    Report Value for money

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    This report assesses the problems that the Ajax programme has encountered and the challenges the MoD faces in delivering it.