National Audit Office publications

The management of tax expenditures

This report examines the effectiveness of HM Treasury’s and HMRC’s use of their resources in the management of tax expenditures.

Sector(s): Tax

Department(s): HM Revenue and Customs, HM Treasury

Published:
14 Feb 2020

Late 2020

Childhood obesity

One in five children aged 11 are obese, and the proportion of 10-11-year-old children classified as obese increased from 17.5% to 20.1% between 2006-07 and 2017-18. Obesity often results in lower life expectancy and a higher chance of suffering from cancer, diabetes and other health problems. NHS England estimates that the NHS spent £6.1bn on … Read more

Posted 13 February 2020 in: Children and families, Health and social care

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Local authority investment in commercial property

Our report examines whether MHCLG’s framework allows for the management of risks to local authorities from commercial property investment.

Sector(s): Local services

Department(s): Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Published:
13 Feb 2020

Information held by the Department for Work & Pensions on deaths by suicide of benefit claimants

This briefing was produced for Parliament in response to correspondence we received from The Rt Hon Frank Field.

Sector(s): Welfare, Pensions and Employment

Department(s): Department for Work and Pensions

Published:
7 Feb 2020

Improving the prison estate

This report examines the condition and capacity of HM Prison and Probation Service’s prison estate.

Sector(s): Law and the justice system

Performance Improvement area(s): Performance measurement

Department(s): Ministry of Justice

Published:
7 Feb 2020

NHS financial management and sustainability

This is our eighth report on the financial sustainability of the
NHS.

Sector(s): Health and social care

Performance Improvement area(s): Financial and service sustainability, Financial management

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care

Published:
5 Feb 2020

Review of capital expenditure in the NHS

This report expands on issues in our NHS financial sustainability report to set out the facts on NHS capital investment.

Sector(s): Health and social care

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care

Published:
5 Feb 2020

Child Maintenance Client Funds Account 2018-19

The C&AG has published his audit opinions for 2018-19 on the 1993, 2003 and 2012 Child Maintenance Schemes.

Sector(s): Welfare, Pensions and Employment

Department(s): Department for Work and Pensions

Published:
30 Jan 2020

Electricity networks

This report examines how effectively Ofgem has used electricity network price controls to protect consumers and achieve government’s environmental goals.

Sector(s): Energy and environment, Regulation, consumers and competition

Performance Improvement area(s): Environmental sustainability, Regulation

Department(s): Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Ofgem

Published:
30 Jan 2020

EU Exit: the Get ready for Brexit campaign

This report examines the management of the Cabinet Office-led Get ready for Brexit campaign.

Sector(s): Borders and immigration, Business and enterprise

Performance Improvement area(s): Exiting the EU, Operational and programme delivery

Department(s): Cabinet Office

Published:
28 Jan 2020

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