Both organisations have achieved cost reduction and performance improvement, but poor planning and delayed delivery of projects hampered progress.
This memorandum supports the Public Accounts Committee’s examination of the government’s preparedness for ‘no deal’
This report assesses how prepared government departments are for the changes required at the border after EU exit.
This report considers the work that government has been undertaking at the border to prepare for a no-deal EU exit.
This report describes government’s progress in implementing changes required to manage the border after the end of the transition period.
The newly-created Competition and Markets Authority has made significant progress in improving how the UK’s competition regime works, and it is now more coherent than before. Business awareness of competition law, however, is low and while it has improved the robustness of its enforcement casework, the regime has so far not produced a substantial flow of enforcement decisions or fines.
An NAO review of the Government’s strategy for cyber security indicates that, although at an early stage, activities are already beginning to deliver benefits.
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today that the Emissions Trading Scheme has brought about a reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases and that the Scheme has benefited the UK economy. He noted that, whilst some reductions were likely to have happened without the Scheme, most of the reductions were generated … Read more
This report contributes to the debate on incentivising public sector performance. It brings together the evidence on the effectiveness of sanctions and rewards (we commissioned Deloitte to conduct a review of the literature), summarises the results of our survey on their use in central government, and provides a practical guide on how to use them well. Discussions about how to lever greater levels of performance increasingly propose the use of these measures.
