Search results for 'Energy and environment'
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The Warm Front Scheme
Published on:The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Warm Front Scheme to tackle fuel poverty in England helped to improve the energy efficiency of over 635,000 households between June 2005 and March 2008. According to a report by the National Audit Office there were, however, 1.9 million vulnerable households in 2006, so this rate of progress […]
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Enhancing urban green space
Published on:The decline in quality of urban green space in England – including urban squares, parks, green corridors and nature reserves – has been halted in most areas and there are signs of recovery in many places. According to today’s report to Parliament by head of the National Audit Office, Sir John Bourn, initiatives led by […]
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NAO briefing: Appraisal and sustainable development
Published on:This briefing was prepared for the Environmental Audit Committee. It gives a high-level landscape overview of options appraisal processes across government, with a focus on incorporating environmental and social factors.
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NAO briefing: The nuclear energy landscape in Great Britain
Published on:This briefing has been prepared for the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee, to inform their discussion of potential inquiries on nuclear energy. On 27 April 2012 the Committee launched an inquiry into Building New Nuclear: The Challenges Ahead.
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Managing flood risk
Published on:This report evaluates whether government’s approach to managing the risks of flooding and coastal erosion is achieving value for money.
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DEFRA: A progress update in resolving the difficulties in administering the Single Payment Scheme in England
Published on:The Rural Payments Agency has made good progress, but still has more to do to resolve all the problems it experienced in administering the 2005 EU single payment scheme to farmers in England, according to a report by the National Audit Office. It succeeded in meeting the June 2007 deadline for paying claims under the […]
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Jobcentre Plus: Delivering effective services through Personal Advisers
Published on:Jobcentre Plus personal advisers provide an effective and highly valued service in helping people looking for work. There are over 9,000 personal advisers who conducted 10.8 million interviews last year with people looking for work. The feedback from those they help is positive and suggests they are an effective method of support in helping people […]
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Oil and gas in the UK – offshore decommissioning
Published on:This report sets out the landscape of oil and gas decommissioning.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Managing the waste PFI programme
Published on:The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has recently made considerable progress in increasing the number and size of local authority projects to procure new waste treatment facilities under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). But, according to a National Audit Office report today, the Department was initially too slow to respond to the 1999 […]
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Environment Agency: Efficiency in water resource management
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today that while the Environment Agency provides well-managed and professional water resource management services there is scope to improve efficiency and realise net savings of some £450,000 a year on its activities in England, with a further potential saving of between £1 million to £2 […]
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NAO briefing: The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
Published on:This briefing was prepared in response to a request from the Energy and Climate Change Committee for an independent overview of the development and implementation of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.
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Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme
Published on:This report examines the performance, implementation, procurement and management of the Green Homes Grant scheme.
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The Restructuring of British Energy
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today on the support provided by the Department of Trade and Industry to the restructuring of British Energy completed in January 2005; and the Department’s management of the risks to the taxpayer arising from the Company’s activities since the completion of restructuring. The Company was […]
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Environmental Sustainability Overview
Published on:This report examines how far the Ministry of Defence has embedded environmental sustainability in estate management, procurement, governance and policy-making.
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Social Policy Focus Autumn 2006
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Achieving net zero
Published on:This report applies experience from auditing cross-government challenges to highlight the risks government needs to manage to achieve net zero.
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Achieving government’s long-term environmental goals
Published on:This report examines how government has set itself up to deliver its long-term environmental goals.
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NAO briefing: The modelling used to set Feed-in Tariffs for solar photovoltaics
Published on:A briefing for the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee and the Energy and Climate Change Committee.
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Briefing for The Environmental Audit Committee on delivery of the target to reduce central government’s office carbon emissions
Published on:A briefing on delivery of the target to reduce central government’s office carbon emissions by 10 per cent in the 12 months since the 2010 General Election.