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  2. How to audit artificial intelligence models

    Insight Opinion

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    In our ever-increasing digital and automatized world, certain buzzwords are becoming more centre stage in the public sector. One of them is “artificial intelligence”. While the concept, and development, of artificial intelligence is not new (artificial intelligence was first recognised as a formal discipline in the mid-1950s), it is a word that has been casually […]

  6. Auditing government’s pandemic response

    Insight Opinion

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    Like governments around the world, ours has committed unprecedented amounts of public money to the fight against coronavirus. By the end of 2020, this reached £271 billion in the UK and will continue to increase. As the UK’s independent public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office has been tracking the Government’s pandemic spending commitments, reporting […]

  8. Improving operational delivery in government

    Insight Good practice guides

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    This guide will help senior leaders in government departments to manage and improve the way public services are delivered.

  10. Public Service Pensions

    Press release

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    This report outlines how the public service pensions landscape has changed since the Hutton Review and highlights future challenges.

  11. Public Service Pensions

    Report Value for money

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    This report outlines how the public service pensions landscape has changed since the Hutton Review and highlights future challenges.

  14. Local government finance in the pandemic

    Press release

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    This report examines whether the government secured financial sustainability across the local authority sector during COVID-19.

  15. Good practice guidance: Fraud and Error

    Insight Good practice guides

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    This guide uses the NAO’s insights to show what can be done to counter the risk of fraud and error.

  18. Government has increased its climate change ambition, now it must step up to the challenge

    Insight Opinion

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    Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions will be a colossal challenge for the UK and one that will require all parts of government to work together. The NAO has audited numerous cross-government projects and programmes in the past, ranging from the 2012 Olympics to preparations for EU Exit. This experience has given us a deep […]

  19. Digital Services at the Border

    Report Value for money

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    This report examines the Digital Services at the Border programme to assess whether it has delivered value for money.

  20. Briefing for the Science and Technology Committee: Advanced Research Projects Agency

    Briefing

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    The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the nature and purpose of the proposed new funding agency for UK research, the Advanced Research Projects Agency.

    To support the inquiry, this briefing draws upon the National Audit Office’s work examining the use made of taxpayers’ money by public bodies. It sets out the basic principles established by HM Treasury governing the creation of new bodies and some of the questions that we regularly ask when assessing whether an organisation is set up to deliver value for money.