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  1. Investigation into the Bounce Back Loan Scheme

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    This investigation describes the scheme’s purpose and how it functions, performance to date, and how government manages value-for-money risks.

  2. Social Fund White Paper Account 2013-14

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    For the first time since 2009-10, the Social Fund White Paper account has not been qualified on the grounds of the completeness, existence and valuation of the debt balance.

  3. Housing Benefit fraud and error

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    The Department for Work & Pensions should have increased its focus on Housing Benefit fraud and error sooner, and is now facing an escalating problem.

  4. The quality of service for personal taxpayers

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    HMRC aimed to move more customers online thereby reducing staff costs but significant numbers of staff were let go before technical improvements were completed leading to a collapse in service quality in 2015. Services have since improved.

  5. Follow-up on the Charity Commission

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    The Charity Commission has made early progress in addressing NAO and Public Accounts Committee recommendations, but significant challenges remain.

  6. The disposal of Remploy’s businesses

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    Remploy and the Department for Work & Pensions completed the disposal of Remploy factories within a tight timetable and below budget.

  7. Procurement of the M25 private finance contract

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    The Highways Agency’s PFI contract to widen the M25 could have been better value for money. The slowness with which it was taken forward resulted in higher financing costs, and the Agency was slow to investigate a potentially cheaper alternative to widening.

  8. 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

  9. Investigation into Verify

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    An investigation into Verify, the government’s identity verification platform. It examines its performance, costs and benefits.

  10. National Employment Savings Trust Corporation Accounts 2012-13

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the National Employment Savings Trust Corporation’s 2012-13 Annual Report and Accounts, on the ground that the Corporation incurred fraudulent expenditure in the year.