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.
The Osborn ruling in October 2013 had an immediate impact on the demand for oral hearings conducted by the Parole Board.
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.
This report examines the extent to which HMRC is well-placed to manage its compliance work following the pandemic, including future risks and challenges.
The progress made by a programme to modernise the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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
How NHS England has handled a backlog of 374,000 items.
This report investigates the NHS’s response to the cyber attack that affected it in May 2017 and the impact on health services.
Most public bodies do not know how much fraud they face and cannot demonstrate that they have the correct level of counter fraud resources.
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.
The Government has committed £933 million from the Libor Fund, but cannot yet confirm that all the money has been used as intended.
Although government provides billions in tax reliefs each year to encourage growth, it does not monitor or evaluate them closely enough.
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.
This investigation examines the extent to which departments have used consultants in
their work to prepare for exiting the EU.
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 investigation is about acquiring land and property for Phase One (London to the West Midlands) of the High Speed 2 programme
Learn about whistleblowing and the Comptroller & Auditor General’s role as a ‘prescribed person’ who can receive whistleblowing disclosures.
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.
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.
This paper sets out how we used a technique called “webscraping” to harvest and analyse textual content from the government’s GOV.UK website.