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  3. Investigation into pre-school vaccinations

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    This investigation sets out the system for providing vaccinations to pre-school children in England and the levels of uptake.

  5. Childhood obesity

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    This report examines the effectiveness of the government’s approach to reducing childhood obesity in England.

  6. Managing government borrowing

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    The environment for government borrowing has become more challenging in recent years – requiring sustained focus from government.

  7. Public Health England’s grant to local authorities

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    Public Health England has made a good start in supporting local authorities with their new responsibilities for public health but it is too soon to tell whether its approach is achieving value for money.

  8. COVID-19 business grant schemes

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    This report looks at BEIS’s oversight of the schemes, its understanding of what the schemes achieved, and how well it worked with local authorities.

  9. The NHS at 75: what have decades of NAO audits told us?

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    Senior Audit Manager Natalie Low gives an NAO perspective on the NHS as it turns 75. What has many decades of the NAO auditing one of the largest employers in the world revealed?

  10. Childhood obesity data visualisation – raw data

    The files below are the raw data that powers our data visualisation tool. We have provided these .csv format files as an accessible alternative for those who are unable to make use of the data visualisation. Please download and analyse in your preferred assistive technology. 1. Dashboard 1 Figure 1 Prevalence of obesity ages 4-5 […]

  12. Tackling the challenges facing public sector spending

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    Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the NAO’s role has been to provide Parliament and the public with evidence-based reports on how public money has been used to tackle the crisis. So far we have published 12 reports on different elements of the pandemic response, including for example the test and trace programme; the procurement of […]

  16. Efficiency savings require learning past lessons

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    Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, outlines lessons from NAO reports into the government’s handling of COVID-19 in a keynote speech at the Houses of Parliament.

  17. Local government finance in the pandemic

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    This report examines whether the government secured financial sustainability across the local authority sector during COVID-19.

  18. Immigration enforcement

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    This report assesses whether the Home Office’s activities for enforcing immigration rules are achieving its vision.