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  1. The Help to Buy equity loan scheme

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    The Help to Buy equity loan scheme is improving access to mortgage finance, but the scheme’s costs will be substantial.

  2. General Practice Extraction Service – Investigation

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    Mistakes in the original procurement and contract management of an IT system, designed to extract data from GP practices, contributed to losses of public funds, through asset write-offs and settlements with suppliers.

  3. E-borders and successor programmes

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    The Home Office spent at least £830 million between 2003 and 2015 on the e-borders programme and its successors, but has failed, so far, to deliver the full vision. We cannot, therefore view e-borders as having delivered value for money.

  6. Military flying training

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    The new military flying training is 6 years delayed and there is much to do if the MoD is to get the planned benefits from its contractor.

  7. Non-executive appointments

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

  9. Ofcom: The effectiveness of converged regulation

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    Ofcom has saved some £23 million over the last five years. However, with its complex remit across the telecommunications sector, Ofcom needs a better articulation of the intended outcomes of its activities and how its work achieves those outcomes.

  10. 4G radio spectrum auction: lessons learned

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    In its sale of the 4G radio spectrum the Office of Communications (Ofcom) achieved its objective of maintaining a competitive market with a number of competing providers.

  11. Sustainability and transformation in the NHS

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    Additional funding, aimed to help the NHS get on a financially sustainable footing, has instead been spent on coping with existing pressures.

  12. National Audit Supply Estimate 2021-22

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    This Estimate provides for expenditure by the National Audit Office. It covers the expenditure and associated non-cash items incurred in the provision of independent assurance to Parliament on the proper accounting for central government expenditure, revenue and assets, including compliance with laws and regulations, and in the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which central government resources have been used; and the provision of independent assurance and information to a wide range of other public, international, and overseas bodies and to members of the public.

  17. Evaluation in Government

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    Treasury expects all departments to evaluate the ex post impacts and costs of all their interventions, including spending, taxation and regulation. This activity should provide valuable information on the cost-effectiveness of government interventions, for the purposes of accountability and to learn lessons to improve current and future policies.

  19. Army 2020

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    The MOD decision to reduce the size of the regular Army and increase the number of trained Army reserves was taken without appropriate testing of feasibility or evaluation of risk.

  20. Converting maintained schools to academies

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    This report focuses on the arrangements for converting schools to academies. We assess the Department for Education’s approach and the extent of conversion; the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process; and the availability of sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to academies.