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  4. Spending Review 2015

    Report Value for money

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    There have been improvements in the way government plans and manages public sector activity, but the NAO does not consider that there exists a coherent, enduring framework for planning and management.

    This report is published alongside ‘Government’s management of its performance: progress with single departmental plans’.

  5. British Business Bank

    Report Value for money

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    This report examines whether the British Business Bank is improving access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises.

  6. Capability is for contract life, not just for procurement

    Insight Opinion

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    The NAO’s work includes looking at a huge range of government activities, and the setting up and managing of commercial arrangements are central to many of them. This became very clear when looking back at twenty years of our work auditing government’s spending and reporting on its value for money for taxpayers. Over this time, […]

  9. Commercial strategy needs to be joined up to achieve best value

    Insight Opinion

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    Last December, the government published a Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement. It stressed that investments should be subject to consideration of the public good, including supporting national priorities. It discussed leveraging commercial activity to achieve social and environmental value. For our good practice guidance for managing the commercial lifecycle, we examined similar opportunities and […]

  10. NAO Interactive Data Visualisation on PFI contract expiry – survey results

    Report Interactive visualisation

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    Last updated – 28 May 2020 Introduction to the topic This online publication provides results of a survey we conducted with public sector authorities (authorities) and which forms part of the evidence base of the NAO’s report on Managing PFI assets and services as contracts end. This report provides information on how public authorities manage […]

  11. Supporting better value in public procurement

    Insight Opinion

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    The NAO’s good practice guide for managing the commercial lifecycle The government’s response to the COVID-19 global pandemic has drawn renewed, and possibly unprecedented, attention to public procurement and commercial practice in government. Our aim at the NAO is to provide an independent and evidence-based perspective, on how public authorities can achieve better outcomes and value […]

  12. Our history

    The National Audit Office has existed in its present form since 1983. A public audit function for central government within the UK has a much longer history.

  15. Central oversight of arm’s-length bodies

    Report Value for money

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    This report focuses on the role of the centre of government in supporting government departments’ oversight of arm’s-length bodies.

  19. Investigation into the UKTI specialist services contract with PA Consulting

    Report Value for money

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    This is an investigation into the contractual arrangements that UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) had in place since 2013-14 for the outsourcing of sector specialist services with PA Consulting. PA received £18.8million in the first year of a contract due to last three years. Following concerns about the way the contract had been priced UKTI terminated the contract in January 2016 and agreed a commercial settlement with PA in May 2016.

  20. Competitive and demand-led grants: good practice guide

    Insight Good practice guides

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    The Cabinet Office estimates that government commits around £130 billion to grants each year – nearly 20% of all government spend. Grants are an important delivery mechanism for policy across government, not just centrally but also in agencies, local authorities and other bodies across the public sector.