Cloud services’ can bring cost and performance benefits. But they can also bring new challenges and risks. To help leaders oversee decision-making and implementation of cloud services, we recently published ‘Guidance for audit committees on cloud services’. The magazine, Public Sector Executive, invited us to outline the issues in the article The National Audit Office’s guide […]
This report aims to evaluate and conclude on HM Treasury’s overall approach to over-indebtedness.
This briefing draws out findings from 46 NAO reports since 2008-09 that are relevant to local delivery. It communicates the wide range of work we have undertaken and the main lessons that have arisen from it.
The UK is losing billions of pounds a year due to tax evasion by small businesses, which can easily exploit weaknesses in government systems.
The £1.4 billion funding could result in 41,000 extra full-time equivalent private sector jobs but thousands more could have been created from the same resources.
The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his opinion on the 2010-11 House of Commons Members Accounts because information on MPs whose expense claims are under investigation by the police was not made available for audit.
Pressured public services and delays to reform the funding system are contributing to local authorities’ finances becoming unsustainable.
Until the government is able to establish effective oversight of the modern slavery system as a whole, it will not be able to significantly reduce the prevalence of modern slavery or show that it is achieving value for money.
The Act requires the NAO Board to agree a Code of Practice setting out in detail how the relationship between the Board and the Comptroller and Auditor General will work in practice.
Although some areas of the NHS in England are achieving value for money for out-of-hours GP services, this is not the case across the board.
In this report, we assess the value for money of the Department for Work and Pensions’ introduction of Universal Credit.
2019 will be a pivotal year for local government in England. Numerous difficult and open-ended questions need rapid resolution, at a time when government focus and capacity is directed elsewhere. Drawing on a number of our recent reports, here I explore some of the challenges facing the sector, from budget cuts and growing social care […]
The Ministry of Justice does not know whether everyone eligible for legal aid can access it and government needs to do more to ensure the sustainability of the legal aid market if it is to achieve value for money.
Government needs to ensure its growth plans for Cambridge are aligned with its £6-7bn investment in a new regional railway (East West Rail, Oxford to Cambridge), so it can maximise the economic benefits of the line, a new report by the National Audit Office says.
G4S and Serco, two of the new providers awarded Home Office contracts to provide accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK, struggled to get the contracts up and running.
Government can release resources and improve accountability by tailoring governance and audit requirements for small public bodies.
The British public’s generosity enabled the government to move at speed to temporarily support 131,000 Ukrainians seeking refuge from war.
This privacy statement explains how the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) and the National Audit Office (NAO) use and protect any data they hold about you. This statement also summarises your rights in relation to that data.
Explore the broad trends identified by our report Homelessness and build a richer understanding of what they mean for different parts of the country.
This report examines government’s management of the Affordable Homes Programme since 2015.