The National Audit Office (NAO) audits the financial statements of all central government departments, agencies and other public bodies and reports the results to Parliament.
More about our financial audit work including a summary of the outcomes of recent audits.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the accounts of the British Tourist Authority.
The Whole of Government Accounts consolidates the public sector’s accounts to produce a picture of the UK’s public finances.
The C&AG has published his audit opinions for 2017-18 on the 1993, 2003 and 2012 Child Maintenance Schemes
The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on these accounts.
The C&AG has reported on the dismissal of the Chief Executive of the Met Office. The accounts are not qualified
The C&AG has qualified his audit opinion on the 2017-18 Resource Accounts.
Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the National Audit Office, has reported on the 2017-18 accounts of HM Revenue & Customs. His report focuses on tax revenue; Personal Tax Credits and Child Benefit error and fraud; and HMRC’s digital transformation programme.
The Comptroller and Auditor General, head of the National Audit Office, has reported on the BBC Television Fee Trust Statement for 2017/18. In this period the BBC issued nearly 26 million TV licences, resulting in income of £3.8 billion. The licence fee evasion rate was 7.04% which represents no significant change since 2016/17 (6.91%)
The Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on the Driving and Vehicle Licence Agency’s controls in respect of the assessment, collection and enforcement of Vehicle Licence Duty.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his opinion on the regularity of the Department for Work and Pensions’ financial statements due to material levels of fraud and error in benefit expenditure.
