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  3. Confirmed impacts: Helping Defra to better manage its facilities contract

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    This impacts case study shows how our investigation of a contract in which Defra appeared to have been overcharged gave greater impetus and legitimacy to Defra’s approach to negotiating a settlement.

    It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.

  5. Confirmed impacts: Investigating potential conflicts of interest in procurement

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    This impacts case study shows how our investigation highlighted risks in stewardship over the use of public funds by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), which led PHSO to develop an action plan to improve procurement policy, practice and effectiveness.

    It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.

  8. Confiscation orders: progress review

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    There has been a greater focus on enforcing criminal confiscation orders, but there remain fundamental weaknesses in the system.

  9. Confiscation orders: progress review

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    There has been a greater focus on enforcing criminal confiscation orders, but there remain fundamental weaknesses in the system.

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  14. Department for Education and Skills Resource Account 2001-02

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    Head of the National Audit Office Sir John Bourn today reported to Parliament that fraudulent and other irregular payments made under the Individual Learning Accounts (ILA) scheme had been estimated as likely to total some £97 million. As a result he has qualified his audit opinion on the Department for Education and Skill’s Resource Account […]

  15. Department for International Development – Financial Management Report

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    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.

  17. Department For Work and Pensions: Progress in tackling benefit fraud

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    The Department for Work and Pensions has made good progress in tackling benefit fraud, which is estimated to have fallen from an estimated £2 billion in 2000-01 to £800 million in 2006-07, a substantial achievement by its staff, although definitional changes have helped. Tackling benefit fraud is inherently difficult as it is in the nature […]

  18. Department for Work and Pensions: Tackling Benefit Fraud

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    The Department for Work and Pensions have made good progress in tackling benefit fraud and estimating the level of fraud and error in key benefits, according to the National Audit Office. By March 2002 the Department had cut the estimated level of fraud and error in Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance by 24 per cent […]

  19. Department of Health – Reducing Brain Damage: Faster access to better stroke care

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today that the priority afforded to stroke care by the Department of Health and the wider health service can be increased, given its impact and cost. Sir John’s report shows that notable progress has been made from a low starting point. It recommends further improvements […]