Transforming health assessments for disability benefits
Published on:DWP’s plans to transform the assessment process for disability benefits face challenges that it will need to carefully manage, according to NAO report.
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The higher education market
Published on:Young people are making complex choices about higher education without much effective help and advice, and the institutions concerned are under very little competitive pressure to provide best value.
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The Ministry of Defence’s arrangement with Annington Property Limited
Published on:The Ministry of Defence (the Department) has committed itself to annual rental bills of nearly £200 million and lost out on billions of pounds of asset value as a result of selling and leasing back the majority of its married quarters estate to Annington Property Limited in 1996 because of the subsequent steep increase in house prices and rents.
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Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 10
Published on:Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 covering the period 2008-2011
Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 10 led by the Department for Education: ‘Raise the educational achievement of all children and young people’
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The Green Investment Bank
Published on:This examines whether the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has achieved the objectives of the UK Green Investment Bank intervention, and whether UK Government Investments has achieved value for money in the subsequent sale of the Bank.
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Innovation key to realising “immense opportunities” for productivity and resilience gains in public services, NAO head to say in annual speech
Published on:The head of the NAO’s annual speech will focus on the challenges of rising demand for public services and stretched resources.
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The Equipment Plan 2022 to 2032
Published on:This study examines whether the Ministry of Defence’s Equipment Plan provides a reliable assessment of the affordability of the MoD’s equipment programmes over the next ten years.
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Buckingham Palace Reservicing on track
Published on:A programme to update Buckingham Palace costing £369 million has been well-managed to date and demonstrates good practice in numerous areas.
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Education recovery in schools in England
Published on:This study assesses how effectively the Department for Education is supporting education recovery in schools following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Local government in 2019: a pivotal year
Published on: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 […]
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Costs multiply as uncertainty dogs UK health security campus
Published on:The UK’s future resilience to dangerous diseases is being undermined by decision-making failures regarding a planned health security campus in Harlow.
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HMRC’s approach to collecting tax from high net worth individuals
Published on:HMRC has a special unit to collect tax from high net worth individuals who are those with assets of £20m or more. While this special unit gives it a better understanding of the tax affairs and behaviours of these taxpayers it needs to evaluate what approaches are the most effective and to understand the outcome it achieves.
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Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report on the 2014-15 Accounts of the British Council
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), Amyas Morse, has today qualified his opinion on the 2014-15 Accounts of the British Council on the grounds of regularity.
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Improving resettlement support for prison leavers to reduce reoffending
Published on:The government is not consistently supporting prison leavers in resettling into the community, a new report by the NAO has found.
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Bank of England making good progress in management of non-financial risks
Published on:The Bank of England is overhauling its management of non-financial risks. The Bank is progressing but recognises there is more to be done.
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The commissioning of specialised services in the NHS
Published on:Explore the results of our surveys of NHS acute hospitals and clinical commissioning groups, showing their views on NHS England’s commissioning of specialised services.
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Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre
Published on:It is important that the services for vulnerable people at the Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre are delivered ‘right first time’ and this did not happen here. Steps are now being taken to address the problems but 35% of the recommendations from Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons’ 2015 inspection have not yet been implemented.
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Government’s management of its performance: progress with single departmental plans
Published on:There have been improvements in the way government plans and manages public sector activity, but the NAO does not consider that there exists a coherent, enduring framework for planning and management.
This report is published alongside ‘Spending Review 2015’.
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Spending Review 2015
Published on:There have been improvements in the way government plans and manages public sector activity, but the NAO does not consider that there exists a coherent, enduring framework for planning and management.
This report is published alongside ‘Government’s management of its performance: progress with single departmental plans’.
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Diversity and inclusion strategy 2015-2018
Published on:This strategy sets out how the NAO will achieve a more diverse and inclusive workforce and ensure that our work helps improve diversity and inclusion across the public sector, and reports on our diversity progress so far.