Funding for local transport: an overview
Published on:As the funding and provision of transport decentralises, this report gives an overview of the landscape and highlights issues and risks.
As the funding and provision of transport decentralises, this report gives an overview of the landscape and highlights issues and risks.
Data visualisation describing changes in English local authorities’ financial circumstances over the last decade.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Transport during 2011-12.
This memorandum sets out background information about the Crossrail programme and the current position
This review of five major rail projects highlights lessons the Department for Transport should apply to current and future rail programmes.
Review of a sample of the data systems underpinning the input and impact indicators in the Department for Transport’s Business Plan, Common Areas of Spend and wider management information.
This paper sets out how we created the interactive data visualisation of our jobcentre journey time model.
The DfT and Transport for London have done well to protect taxpayers’ interests in Crossrail but risks remain including delivery of the trains.
On 15 January 2018, Carillion declared insolvency and the Official Receiver, an employee of the Insolvency Service, started to liquidate its assets and contracts. This report focuses on the role of the UK government in preparing for and managing the liquidation of Carillion.
Public electric vehicle chargepoint installations are on track, but government needs to make sure they are located in the right places.
The strategic case for HS2, in terms of increasing rail capacity and generating regional growth, has still to be demonstrated clearly.
This report describes government’s progress in implementing changes required to manage the border after the end of the transition period.
Failure to resolve the problem of long waiting times for car practical driving tests has exposed underlying issues at DVSA.
The Department for Transport started its preparations for the 2010 spending review early and took steps to improve and challenge the evidence on which it based its decisions with a view to securing value for money.
The lack of predictability of funding for highways authorities has practical implications for road networks and may lead to increased costs in the long term.
The NAO has published its report on the 2010-11 accounts of the Department of Transport.July 2011
Thameslink aims to reduce overcrowding and journey times. Initial progress has been good but a 3 year delay in awarding the train contract puts the 2018 programme deadline at risk.
This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we have produced covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Transport during 2010-2011.
For combined authorities to deliver real progress they will need to demonstrate that they can drive economic growth and contribute to public sector reform.
The Department for Transport protected the taxpayer and secured value for money in the termination of National Express’s InterCity East Coast franchise.