The Whole of Government Accounts provide a unique perspective owing to their reach and approach to measuring the government’s financial performance and position.
Police forces have successfully reduced costs since 2011, but do not have a clear understanding of the demands placed upon them or of the factors that affect their costs.
Public sector Boards must conduct an annual performance appraisal and Board members may find it helpful to complete this questionnaire as part of the process.
We record government’s progress in ensuring health and social care supplies should the UK leave the EU without a deal.
This impacts case study shows how central government has responded to our identification of the need to have a better understanding of the implications on local service delivery when making funding decisions, and how local government has made use of our report.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
This report examines secure training centres for young offenders and MoJ and HMPPS’s progress with establishing secure schools.
This investigation assesses government’s oversight of the waste industry and what action is taken to address illegal activity.
The NAO has called for government to negotiate greater access to information about how much outsourced public services are actually costing suppliers and therefore how much profit they are making.
A programme to sell enough government land by March 2015 to build a potential 100,000 homes did not collect information on the amount of money raised or how many homes have actually been built. In future land sales, responsibility for monitoring what happens to land after disposal should be made clear.
The first sale of government shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland in August 2015 was well planned and organised and represented value for money.
This report summarises our progress and activities over the final year of the 2015-2018 Diversity & Inclusion strategy. As part of our commitment to the Public Sector Equality Duty we also publish equality data in a separate report.
This report examines the Department for International Trade’s strategy for supporting investment into the UK.
The NAO Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 provides details about the NAO’s work and our performance.
Kids Company, a children’s charity, received at least £46m of public funding. Officials raised concerns about the charity’s cash flow and financial sustainability at least 6 times between 2002 and 2015 but the charity never reached a position where it was able to operate without government assistance.
The government needs to do more to demonstrate how new arrangements for training new teachers are improving the quality of teaching in classrooms.
Probation services have been restructured on time and within cost targets during a period of major change but operational problems and risks to further service transformation need to be resolved if re-offending levels are to reduce.
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today that the frameworks that the Department for Education and Skills and the Learning and Skills Council have developed and put in place to plan and monitor the further education sector are likely to support systematic planning and provide reasonable assurance. As the frameworks develop, […]
This report outlines the importance of recognising and adequately managing conflicts of interest.
We help Parliament hold government to account for spending public money and, in so doing, drive improvements in public services. To achieve this, we provide system wide, integrated and independent public audit, drawing on the distinctive framework of rights set out for us by Parliament.
The Whole of Government Accounts consolidates the public sector’s accounts to produce a picture of the UK’s public finances.