This investigation is about acquiring land and property for Phase One (London to the West Midlands) of the High Speed 2 programme
This report sets out the history of Contracts for Difference and how the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy designed the 2017 auction, including the changes it made to the rules related to the capacity cap, and the impact these changes had.
HM Courts Service, the body responsible for the collection of fines, confiscation orders and penalties imposed by the judiciary and police, has been unable to provide proper accounting records supporting those fines, confiscation orders and penalties.
This investigation describes the events surrounding the appointment and dismissal of the Student Loans Company’s former chief executive officer. It sets outs the Department for Education’s role in oversight of the Company and how it responded to the concerns raised by two Company staff.
This memorandum has been prepared for the Scottish Affairs Committee and provides an overview of the Health and Safety Executive’s work in Scotland.
This investigation covers a single, major cause of underpayment error in ESA. This error relates to people whose existing benefit claim was converted to ESA and who were entitled to income-related ESA but were only awarded contribution-based ESA.
On 15 January 2018, Carillion declared insolvency and the Official Receiver, an employee of the Insolvency Service, started to liquidate its assets and contracts. This report focuses on the role of the UK government in preparing for and managing the liquidation of Carillion.
Fraudsters sometimes use the names of National Audit Office (NAO) staff, including the NAO Chair, the head of the NAO the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG), or derivatives of “National Audit Office”, in an attempt to defraud people. They may also use our address on their letters to try and trick you: One e-mail scam […]
An investigation into the fall in National Lottery income for good causes in 2016-17. It reviews the trends in total National Lottery sales and income for good causes, focusing on the six distributors with the largest share of National Lottery income and the way they have managed the balances within the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
13 December 2017
This report assesses how well pupils with special educational needs and disabilities are being supported.
This investigation sets out the decision-making process, leading to the July 2017 announcement of the cancellation of three rail electrification projects: the Midland Main Line north of Kettering (to Nottingham and Sheffield); the Great Western Main Line between Cardiff and Swansea; and the Lakes Line between Oxenholme and Windermere.
How NHS England has handled a backlog of 374,000 items.
HMRC’s renewed strategy for dealing with alcohol duty fraud is a significant improvement on the previous strategy. However, the Department needs a reliable estimate of the tax gaps for beer and wine; and to tackle successfully the illicit diversion of duty-unpaid alcohol back into the UK market.
The Government has committed £933 million from the Libor Fund, but cannot yet confirm that all the money has been used as intended.
This report investigates the NHS’s response to the cyber attack that affected it in May 2017 and the impact on health services.
The National Audit Office has today published the results of its investigation into the governance of the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership, following concerns raised by Stephen Barclay MP (North East Cambridgeshire).
The progress made by a programme to modernise the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has limited the scope of his audit opinion on the regularity of expenditure in the 2009-10 House of Commons Members Resource Accounts.
This investigation looks at the 2017-18 increase in NHS spending on certain generic medicines, possible causes of the price increases in the market for generic medicines, and how the Department of Health and Social Care responded to the price increases.
This investigation focuses on the circumstances relating to the monitoring of Learndirect Ltd by the Education and Skills Funding Agency, the inspection of the company by Ofsted, and the funding of the company by various government bodies.