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  2. Office of Fair Trading: regulating consumer credit

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    Regulation of the consumer credit market is providing benefits to consumers, but is not minimizing consumer harm from unscrupulous trading practices.

  3. Personal Independence Payment: early progress

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    The DWP has had to delay the Personal Independence Payment programme’s roll-out and reduce expected savings during this Spending Review period.

  4. Procuring new trains

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    Long-standing issues in the rail industry and the scale of the procurements led to the DfT’s decision to lead the procurements itself, despite not having led a major rolling stock procurement before.

  5. The Ministry of Justice’s electronic monitoring contracts

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    This memorandum sets out the events surrounding the Ministry of Justice’s process to re-compete its electronic monitoring contracts and its subsequent decision to commission a forensic audit of these contracts

  6. Universal Credit: progress update

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    The DWP has reset Universal Credit on a sounder basis but at significant cost, by extending the time for implementation and choosing a more expensive approach.

  8. Early contracts for renewable electricity

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    The Government awarded, without competition, £16.6 billion worth of early contracts to eight renewable generation projects at risk of investment delay.

  9. Savings from operational PFI contracts

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    Progress on the Government’s initiative to achieve £1.5 billion worth of savings from operational PFI contracts.

  10. Spinning-out MyCSP as a mutual joint venture

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    MyCSP has the potential to be good value for money with a projected saving of 50 per cent on costs, but the Cabinet Office and MyCSP still face many large challenges in transforming the service.

  12. Out-of-hours GP services in England

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    Although some areas of the NHS in England are achieving value for money for out-of-hours GP services, this is not the case across the board.

  13. The rural broadband programme

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    The programme to make superfast broadband widely available in each area of the UK is currently expected to be delivered nearly two years later than planned.

  15. Supporting investment into the UK

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    This report examines the Department for International Trade’s strategy for supporting investment into the UK.

  16. Managing and replacing the Aspire contract

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    There are serious risks to HMRC’s business if the programme to replace the Aspire contract fails to meet its objectives by June 2017, when the contract ends.

  17. Improving government procurement

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    The government’s procurement strategy has led to savings. But, a cultural shift is needed if government is to obtain all the benefits available.

  18. Monitor: Regulating NHS foundation trusts

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    Monitor has achieved value for money in regulating NHS foundation trusts, and has generally been effective in helping trusts in difficulty to improve.

  19. The Government Procurement Card

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    Used appropriately, GPC can be a cost-effective way for government to procure goods and services. However, there is no up to date value-for-money case quantifying the benefits of the cards. There has also been a lack of clear central guidance on when the cards are the most appropriate way to procure goods and services.