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Environmental Sustainability Overview

This report examines how far the Ministry of Defence has embedded environmental sustainability in estate management, procurement, governance and policy-making.

Sector(s): Energy and environment, National security

Performance Improvement area(s): Environmental sustainability

Department(s): Ministry of Defence

Published:
13 May 2020

Water supply and demand management

This report sets out the challenges facing the water industry in England and assesses how Defra is tackling them.

Sector(s): Energy and environment, Infrastructure, Regulation, consumers and competition

Performance Improvement area(s): Environmental sustainability, Regulation

Department(s): Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Published:
25 Mar 2020

Departmental Overview Environmental protection 2019

The NAO is publishing a suite of Departmental Overviews, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons Select Committees and Members of Parliament.

Sector(s): Energy and environment

Performance Improvement area(s): Environmental sustainability, Support to Boards

Department(s): Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Published:
9 Mar 2020

Electricity networks

This report examines how effectively Ofgem has used electricity network price controls to protect consumers and achieve government’s environmental goals.

Sector(s): Energy and environment, Regulation, consumers and competition

Performance Improvement area(s): Environmental sustainability, Regulation

Department(s): Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Ofgem

Published:
30 Jan 2020

Fracking for shale gas in England

This report sets out the facts about the government’s support of shale gas development in England.

Sector(s): Energy and environment

Performance Improvement area(s): Environmental sustainability, Regulation

Department(s): Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Published:
23 Oct 2019

Early review of the new farming programme

This report examines Defra’s approach to developing the Future Farming and Countryside Programme.

Sector(s): Energy and environment, Food and farming

Performance Improvement area(s): Environmental sustainability

Department(s): Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Published:
5 Jun 2019

Regulating to protect consumers: Utilities, communications and financial services markets

This report assesses how well Ofwat, Ofgem, Ofcom and the FCA measure and report their performance in protecting consumer interests.

Sector(s): Energy and environment, Financial services, Regulation, consumers and competition

Performance Improvement area(s): Performance measurement, Regulation, User choice and consumer protection

Published:
20 Mar 2019

Departmental Overview: Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs

This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.

Sector(s): Energy and environment, Food and farming

Performance Improvement area(s): Support to Boards

Published:
12 Feb 2019

Oil and gas in the UK – offshore decommissioning

This report sets out the landscape of oil and gas decommissioning.

Sector(s): Energy and environment

Department(s): Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Published:
25 Jan 2019

Environmental metrics: government’s approach to monitoring the state of the natural environment

Our study evaluates how far the government has an effective system for measuring progress towards its environmental objectives.

Sector(s): Energy and environment

Performance Improvement area(s): Environmental sustainability, Performance measurement

Department(s): Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Published:
16 Jan 2019