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  1. Progress with Making Tax Digital

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    HMRC’s flagship tax transformation programme is now expected to cost five times the original forecast in 2016 (in real terms) following repeated delays.

  2. Government on the internet: progress in delivering information and services online.

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    Government has made progress in making a wide range of information available to the public through the internet. But the National Audit Office has found that although internet users rate government websites reasonably well, the quality of those websites has improved only slightly since 2002. Todays report to Parliament looked at the progress made by […]

  3. Building and maintaining river and coastal flood defences in England

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    The Environment Agency has made a number of improvements in the management of flood risk since 2001. Despite this, the Agency has not met its target to maintain 63 per cent of England’s flood defence systems in their target condition. A report out today by the National Audit Office highlights a number of improvements to […]

  5. Transforming Rehabilitation

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    Probation services have been restructured on time and within cost targets during a period of major change but operational problems and risks to further service transformation need to be resolved if re-offending levels are to reduce.

  7. Update on preparations for Smart Metering

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    The economic case for the smart metering programme remains positive but there are significant risks and challenges to successful implementation, which must be managed.

  9. High Speed Two: A progress update

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    This report examines whether DfT
    and HS2 Ltd have protected value for money so far in their stewardship of HS2.

  10. Managing the expansion of the academies programme

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    The rapid expansion of the programme has been a significant achievement, but the DfE was unprepared for the scale of the financial implications.

  11. Decommissioning toolkit
    Phase I Methodology

    This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. In early 2003, the National Audit Office began a series of work on benchmarking the Ministry of Defence’s acquisition system. The aim of this work is to add value to the Ministry of Defence’s understanding of the key influences upon the acquisition system and how these can […]

  12. The Wider Markets Initiative

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    Under the Wider Markets Initiative government departments could provide real gains to the public sector, according to the NAO. The initiative encourages the public sector to make fuller use of core public assets in an enterprising way – developing and selling new goods and services. Where undertaken, such new activities are working well. The benefits […]

  14. Progress with trade negotiations

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    This report examines government’s progress with its programme of trade negotiations since the UK’s departure from the EU.

  15. Financial Auditing and Reporting: General Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2003-04

    Report Financial audit

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    Standards of accountability and probity in central government bodies remain high, according to head of the NAO Sir John Bourn. Departments have continued to make good progress in meeting the challenge of resource accounting and in improving the quality of accounts submitted for audit. Sir John also welcomed the progress made by departments in submitting […]

  16. The economic regulation of the water sector

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    Since privatisation, Ofwat and Defra have overseen major improvements in water quality and service quality. Customers have seen a marked rise in bills but not the benefits of companies’ unexpected financial gains.

  17. Strategic financial management in the Ministry of Defence

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    The Ministry of Defence’s strategy for improving its financial management has put its finances on a sounder footing and is delivering results, but there are still considerable challenges ahead, including delivering the savings already removed from budget allocations.

  18. Regulating Housing Associations’ Management of Financial Risk

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    The housing association sector and the Housing Corporation, the sector’s regulator, are facing new and more complex financial risks, according to the National Audit Office. The Housing Corporation has started to reform the way in which it regulates associations, known as Registered Social Landlords (RSLs), but there is scope to improve regulation further. According to […]