The disposal of Remploy’s businesses
Published on:Remploy and the Department for Work & Pensions completed the disposal of Remploy factories within a tight timetable and below budget.
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COMPASS contracts for the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers
Published on:G4S and Serco, two of the new providers awarded Home Office contracts to provide accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK, struggled to get the contracts up and running.
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Establishing Free Schools
Published on:Many new Free Schools have been established quickly and at relatively low cost but the DfE will need to tackle a rising cost trend and systematically learn lessons from problems in a few early wave schools.
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The Ministry of Justice’s electronic monitoring contracts
Published on: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
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Confidentiality clauses and special severance payments
Published on:There is a lack of transparency, consistency and accountability in the use of compromise agreements in the public sector and little is being done to change this.
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Freedom of Information Publication Scheme: Details of Board and senior staff remuneration, expenses and hospitality
This page is part of our Freedom of Information (FOI) Publication Scheme. Senior staff remuneration In the spirit of transparency, the NAO provides details of the salaries of all our senior staff. Travel and Hospitality Expenditure Introduction The National Audit Office has decided to make a voluntary disclosure of the expenditure incurred from NAO funds […]
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Complaints policy
What to do if you want to complain about the work of the National Audit Office. We value your comments and feedback. The NAO aims to carry out its work to the highest professional standards and to deliver an efficient and effective public audit service which represents best value for money. We are committed to continual improvement.
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Financial audits: an overview
Our financial audit reports contain audit opinions on accounts across the public sector.
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Managing the expansion of the academies programme
Published on:The rapid expansion of the programme has been a significant achievement, but the DfE was unprepared for the scale of the financial implications.
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Tax avoidance: tackling marketed avoidance schemes
Published on:HMRC is making some headway in reducing opportunities for tax avoidance, but over 100 new schemes have been disclosed in each of the last four years.
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The Ministry of Justice’s language services contract
Published on:We publish the results of our investigation into the contracting out of language services in the justice system.
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HM Revenue and Customs Renewed Alcohol Strategy: A progress report
Published on: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.
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HM Courts Service Trust Statement for the year ended 31 March 2011
Published on: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.
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The Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report on the 2010-11 House of Commons Members Accounts
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his opinion on the 2010-11 House of Commons Members Accounts because information on MPs whose expense claims are under investigation by the police was not made available for audit.
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Department for International Development – Financial Management Report
Published on:DFID has improved its core financial management and has an ambitious programme underway to improve its focus on value for money. But it cannot yet assess important aspects of the value for money of the aid it has delivered, at an aggregated level.
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The Health and Safety Executive’s work in Scotland
Published on:This memorandum has been prepared for the Scottish Affairs Committee and provides an overview of the Health and Safety Executive’s work in Scotland.
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Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the 2009-10 House of Commons Members Resource Accounts
Published on: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.
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Review of the UK’s Competition Landscape
Published on:A National Audit Office review of the regime for overseeing markets and enforcing competition law in the UK has found that it is generally effective and well regarded by comparison with international equivalents. However, the NAO has found that the competition system as a whole must still address a number of challenges to function as […]
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The National Offender Management Information System
Published on:An initiative, begun in 2004, by the National Offender Management Service to build a single offender management IT system for the prison and probation services has not delivered value for money. A National Audit Office investigation found the project had been hampered by poor management leading to a three-year delay, a doubling in project costs […]
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Private Finance Recommendations Database
Published on:Reports produced by the House of Commons’ Committee of Public Accounts (the PAC) following hearings based on our PFI and PPP investigations include nearly 1000 recommendations.
We have collected these recommendations and the related Treasury responses into a PFI and PPP/Privatisation Recommendations database last updated: 19/06/2009.