Investigation into the Parole Board
Published on:The Osborn ruling in October 2013 had an immediate impact on the demand for oral hearings conducted by the Parole Board.
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Investigation into errors in Employment and Support Allowance
Published on: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.
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Home Office: Investigation into the Disclosure and Barring Service
Published on:The progress made by a programme to modernise the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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Investigation into clinical correspondence handling in the NHS
Published on:How NHS England has handled a backlog of 374,000 items.
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Investigation: WannaCry cyber attack and the NHS
Published on:This report investigates the NHS’s response to the cyber attack that affected it in May 2017 and the impact on health services.
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Investigation into NHS spending on generic medicines in primary care
Published on: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.
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Investigation into changes to Community Rehabilitation Company contracts
Published on:An investigation into why and how the Ministry of Justice adjusted Community Rehabilitation Companies’ (CRCs) contracts; and the financial and other implications of the adjustments to the CRCs’ contracts.
19 December 2017
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Tackling fraud and corruption against government
Published on:Most public bodies do not know how much fraud they face and cannot demonstrate that they have the correct level of counter fraud resources.
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Tax measures to encourage economic growth
Published on:Although government provides billions in tax reliefs each year to encourage growth, it does not monitor or evaluate them closely enough.
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Investigation into the management of the Libor Fund
Published on:The Government has committed £933 million from the Libor Fund, but cannot yet confirm that all the money has been used as intended.
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Investigation into the 2017 auction for low-carbon electricity generation contracts
Published on: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.
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Investigation: National Lottery funding for good causes
Published on: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
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Departments’ use of consultants to support preparations for EU Exit
Published on:This investigation examines the extent to which departments have used consultants in
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Whistleblowing: the NAO’s role
Learn about whistleblowing and the Comptroller & Auditor General’s role as a ‘prescribed person’ who can receive whistleblowing disclosures.
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Investigation into the circumstances surrounding the monitoring, inspection and funding of Learndirect Ltd
Published on: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.
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Investigation into land and property acquisition for the Phase One (London – West Midlands) of the High Speed 2 programme
Published on:This investigation is about acquiring land and property for Phase One (London to the West Midlands) of the High Speed 2 programme
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Investigating the volume and readability of guidance on the government’s GOV.UK website
Published on:This paper sets out how we used a technique called “webscraping” to harvest and analyse textual content from the government’s GOV.UK website.
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Investigation into NHS continuing healthcare funding
Published on:Funding for ongoing health care is a complex and highly sensitive area, which can affect some of the most vulnerable people in society and those that care for them.
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Investigation into the Department for Transport’s decision to cancel three rail electrification projects
Published on: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.
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Investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix
Published on:HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) contract with Synnex-Concentrix UK Ltd was terminated in November 2016. The contract was designed to add capacity to HMRC’s programme of interventions to prevent or detect error and fraud in personal tax credits awards. HMRC estimated that the contract would save £1 billion over its three year life time and an estimated £193 million, excluding Concentrix’s costs, had been saved by the time of contract termination.