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  1. Managing conflicts of interest

    Work in progress

    Autumn 2024

    It is important to manage conflicts of interest effectively. Our latest report on managing propriety in the public sector will look at how conflicts of interest are handled across government.

  2. Non-executive appointments

    Report Value for money

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    Government is taking longer than it should to appoint non-executive directors (NEDs) to public positions, and these delays can leave gaps on boards, creating risks to governance, and reducing the number of high-quality candidates.

  3. Cabinet Office 2022-23

    Overview Departmental overview

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    Cabinet Office oversees how departments implement Cabinet decisions. It spends approximately £1 billion each year.

  7. Cabinet Office functional savings

    Report Value for money

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    The Cabinet Office reports efficiency savings across shared government functions, but they could implement a more robust approach.

  9. Competition in public procurement: lessons learned

    Insight Lessons learned

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    This report examines whether government has mechanisms in place to understand and encourage competition in public procurement, and how government departments can make their use of competition more effective.

  12. Departmental Overview 2021-22: Cabinet Office

    Overview Departmental overview

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    This guide has been produced to support the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in its examination of the Cabinet Office’s spending and performance.

  13. Investigation into the performance of UK Security Vetting

    Report Value for money

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    This report looks at how UKSV has performed in providing national security vetting services since 2018; what it is doing to ensure security vetting is completed in a timely way to ensure the continued protection and functioning of government; and what it is doing to modernise and reform.

  14. Government Shared Services

    Report Value for money

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    The Government has made progress delivering its latest strategy to share back-office services across Whitehall departments in the past year, but remaining barriers will need to be addressed for it to deliver its plans by 2028 and achieve value for money, according to the National Audit Office.

  15. Improving government data: A guide for senior leaders

    Insight Good practice guides

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    This guide is aimed at accounting officers, chief executives, director
    generals, directors and chief operating officers and people responsible for government services.

  16. Managing central government property

    Report Value for money

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    This study examines how the Cabinet Office maintains, oversees and manages central government property.

  20. Evaluating government spending

    Report Value for money

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    This report examines government’s progress in developing the provision and use of evaluation evidence across government.