Governance and decision‑making on mega‑projects
Published on:Government projects that are particularly costly, innovative, risky, complex and strategically significant need stronger governance.
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Innovation key to realising “immense opportunities” for productivity and resilience gains in public services, NAO head to say in annual speech
Published on:The head of the NAO’s annual speech will focus on the challenges of rising demand for public services and stretched resources.
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Innovation key to unlocking gains in productivity and resilience
Published on:In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, championed effective innovation as a way to tackle the ongoing challenge of rising demand for stretched public services.
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Public services can benefit from government improving how it works with technology suppliers
Published on:Government can save significant sums of time and money by improving how it engages with technology suppliers.
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Prison expansion plan was ‘unrealistic and not prioritised’ – NAO
Published on:The government’s 2021 commitment to deliver 20,000 new prison places is not expected to be achieved until 2031, a new NAO report has revealed.
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The National Space Strategy and the role of the UK Space Agency
Published on:Strategic shortcomings are undermining government’s aims to make the UK one of the world’s most innovative and attractive space economies.
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Major Project Delivery Insights team
Our Major Project Delivery Insights team are experts on a wide range of government projects, from infrastructure to defence equipment.
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Progress on the courts and tribunals reform programme
Published on:HM Courts & Tribunals Service’s £1.3bn court reform programme is nearing its end. This report examines progress implementing the programme.
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The DECA: Understanding challenges in delivering project objectives
Published on: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.
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BBC savings and reform
Published on:This report examines the BBC’s progress in delivering its savings and reform programme.
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Digital Services at the Border
Published on:This report examines the Digital Services at the Border programme to assess whether it has delivered value for money.
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Specialist skills in the civil service
Published on:This report examines the progress the government has made in developing specialist skills in the civil service.
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Specialist skills in the civil service
Published on:This report examines the progress the government has made in developing specialist skills in the civil service.
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Managing PFI assets and services as contracts end
Published on:This report provides information on managing PFI contracts when they end and considers whether government is preparing for expiry appropriately.
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Getting contracts right and responding if they go wrong
Published on:Billions of pounds of cost increase due to contractual change, delays introducing communication networks for our emergency services, potential strains on Army personnel – our recent reports illustrate the huge importance of getting contracts right, and what organisations need to do if they go wrong. They also reinforce the principles discussed in previous posts in […]
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A memorandum on the Crossrail programme
Published on:This memorandum sets out background information about the Crossrail programme and the current position
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Managing the Bank of England’s Central Services
Published on:This report examines whether the Bank of England has a sufficiently ambitious strategy for developing efficient and cost-effective Central Services.
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Improving government’s planning and spending framework
Published on:This report reviews government’s progress in improving the planning and spending framework since we last reported in July 2016.
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Financial sustainability of police forces in England and Wales 2018
Published on:This report examines the Home Office’s progress in managing a clear assurance and oversight system for police forces’ financial sustainability.
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The Defence Nuclear Enterprise: a landscape review
Published on:This landscape report aims to help Parliament better understand the complexities of the Defence Nuclear Enterprise by describing how the Ministry of Defence needs to bring together its programmes, including production of the new deterrent submarines, to provide a continuous at sea deterrent.