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  1. Defence inventory management

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    Delivery to the frontline is still being put at risk by longstanding weaknesses in inventory management, despite the Ministry of Defence taking steps to improve, according to a new National Audit Office report.

  2. Entitlement to free early education and childcare

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    Significant progress has been made in providing 15 hours of free childcare to parents of 3- and 4-year olds, but the Department of Education has not yet achieved full value for money

  3. Government Shared Services

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    The Government has made progress delivering its latest strategy to share back-office services across Whitehall departments in the past year, but remaining barriers will need to be addressed for it to deliver its plans by 2028 and achieve value for money, according to the National Audit Office.

  4. Supporting local economic growth

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    This report considers lessons DLUHC has learned from implementing local growth policies, and how it has applied them.

  5. 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.

  6. Strategic flood risk management

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    The Environment Agency has improved the cost effectiveness and prioritization of its flood risk spending but current spending is insufficient to meet many flood defence maintenance needs.

  7. 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.

  8. Responding to crises

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    The Department for International Development’s spending on humanitarian interventions has almost trebled between 2010-11 and 2014-15 to more than £1 billion per year, rising as a share of its total budget from 6% to 14%.

  9. Discharging older patients from hospital

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    There are currently far too many older people in hospitals who do not need to be there. Without radical action, this problem will worsen and add further financial strain to the NHS and local government.

  10. Progress report on the Regional Growth Fund

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    Improvements have been made to the running of the Regional Growth Fund, but there is still a significant amount of public money to allocate through the Fund.

  11. Department for Work and Pensions 2012-13 accounts

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    The DWP has not to date achieved value for money in the development of Universal Credit and to do so in future it will need to learn the lessons of past failures.

  12. Education recovery in schools in England

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    This study assesses how effectively the Department for Education is supporting education recovery in schools following the COVID-19 pandemic.