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  1. Fraud and Error Stocktake

    Insight Good practice guides

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    The government continues to lose large amounts of money through fraud and error overpayments and many vulnerable people get less support than they are entitled to.

  2. Care Act first-phase reforms

    Report Value for money

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    The first phase of the Care Act has been implemented well, but this places new responsibilities on local authorities whose core funding is being significantly reduced.

  3. Local government new burdens

    Report Value for money

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    The Department for Communities and Local Government has taken steps since November 2014 to improve its understanding of new burdens on local authorities.

  4. Achieving net zero

    Press release

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    This report applies experience from auditing cross-government challenges to highlight the risks government needs to manage to achieve net zero.

  5. Care Quality Commission

    Report Value for money

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    The CQC, the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England, has made substantial progress but needs to recruit and train staff and build a new organisational culture.

  6. Delivering the Commercialisation of Public Sector Science

    Report Value for money

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    Sir John Bourn, the Head of the NAO, reported to Parliament today that there has been progress in capturing for the nation more of the economic and social benefits of scientific research funded by the taxpayer. Commercialisation can range from making research outputs available to all, free of charge, to forming companies to develop innovative […]

  7. Using alternatives to regulation to achieve policy objectives

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    There are some good examples across government of alternatives to regulation being used to achieve policy objectives. However more needs to done to share these examples to highlight when alternatives are most likely to work and how they should be designed.

  8. Strategic financial management in the Ministry of Defence

    Report Value for money

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    The Ministry of Defence’s strategy for improving its financial management has put its finances on a sounder footing and is delivering results, but there are still considerable challenges ahead, including delivering the savings already removed from budget allocations.

  9. Transforming government’s contract management

    Report Value for money

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    We published two reports today – Following the discovery of widespread and deep-rooted weaknesses in the government’s management of contracts it is starting to improve how it manages its contracts.

  10. Planting Trees in England

    Press release

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    This report evaluates whether Defra’s management of new tree-planting schemes is likely to achieve value for money.