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.
This investigation assesses government’s oversight of the waste industry and what action is taken to address illegal activity.
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.
This report examines the Department for International Trade’s strategy for supporting investment into the UK.
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.
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.
The NAO Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 provides details about the NAO’s work and our performance.
This report outlines the importance of recognising and adequately managing conflicts of interest.
The NAO reports on the use of confidentiality clauses and severance payments in three more areas of government.
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.
This report considers the effectiveness of the UK government’s cross-border travel measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Whole of Government Accounts consolidates the public sector’s accounts to produce a picture of the UK’s public finances.
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.
This report is a detailed review of government contracts let to Randox between January 2020 and December 2021.
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.
Payment by results (PbR) schemes are hard to get right, and are risky and costly for commissioners. Credible evidence for claimed benefits of PbR is now needed.
This investigation examines the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund announced in July 2020.
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported to Parliament on the £1.2 billion expansion of the PRIME contract, that DWP had succeeded in getting the deal it had set out to achieve. The decision to proceed via a non-competitive negotiation with LST was the right one. DWP introduced competitive tension into […]
Despite funding and staffing levels for mental health services increasing, and more patients being treated, millions of people with mental health needs are still not accessing services, with some facing lengthy waits for treatment, according to a new National Audit Office report.