A National Audit Office review of the regime for overseeing markets and enforcing competition law in the UK has found that it is generally effective and well regarded by comparison with international equivalents. However, the NAO has found that the competition system as a whole must still address a number of challenges to function as […]
Defra’s 2013-14 accounts have not been qualified but the C&AG warns of the likelihood of the European Commission’s imposing significant financial penalties on the department in future.
This report examines the extent to which gambling regulation protects people from gambling‑related harms and addresses emerging risks.
This report examines the Ministry of Defence’s management of its large and complex infrastructure projects at nuclear-regulated sites.
In March 2007 we were invited by the House of Lords Select Committee on Regulators to review the way that impact assessment is performed by five regulators: Ofcom; Ofgem; Ofwat; Postcomm; and the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).
The rate at which electronic care records systems are being put in place across the NHS under the National Programme for IT is falling far below expectations and the core aim that every patient should have an electronic care record under the Programme will not now be achieved.
Government is committed to conducting formal impact assessments of the need for and likely impact of new regulations. A National Audit Office report has found that scrutiny of proposed legislation is strengthening and that the standard is better than it was, but one fifth of assessments still did not include any quantified data to assess […]
The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the 2018-19 accounts of the British Tourist Authority.
The Pensions Regulator has been effective in establishing clear links between its statutory objectives and how it goes about meeting them, and has made good progress in addressing the problems left by the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority (Opra). The good progress has been acknowledged by the Pensions Regulator stakeholders: 78 per cent of whom believe […]
This report examines how HM Treasury and HMRC manage tax measures that have an impact on the environment.
The level of penalties imposed by the EC has gone down in 2012-13 to £20 million but this is largely caused by administrative delay in the Commission rather than improved compliance by Defra.
The National Audit Office and the Audit Commission have today called for public bodies to work together much more effectively than they currently do to maximise savings from procurement activities.
This report assesses how well Ofwat, Ofgem, Ofcom and the FCA measure and report their performance in protecting consumer interests.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ (BIS’s) free face-to-face advice for people struggling with debt has helped more people than planned, at slightly less than the planned cost per person, and is highly regarded by those that use it. However, demand is now outstripping capacity.
This page is part of our decision support tool. [Footnote 1] EU law on state aid derives from the Treaty of Rome and aims to prevent member states from unfairly distorting competition within the EU, except in certain permitted circumstances. Where a state intervention distorts competition, this will usually constitute state aid. The Treaty expressly […]
This report sets out the facts about the government’s support of shale gas development in England.
This report examines the recent exit of energy suppliers from the market and government’s role in managing the exits.