This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. You must express your outcomes in ‘Smart’ terms. ‘Smart’ is an acronym that you may be more familiar with in terms of setting targets. We use it here to remind you to make your outcomes: Specific. The way you express your outcome must target the issue you are concerned […]
The C&AG of the NAO, Gareth Davies, has qualified his opinion on the regularity of DWP’s 2020-21 financial statements.
This report evaluates whether government’s approach to managing the risks of flooding and coastal erosion is achieving value for money.
This report sets out the process by which MHCLG chose the 101 towns in England it invited to develop Town Deals.
The Regional Development Agencies Advantage West Midlands, East Midlands Development Agency and Yorkshire Forward are all performing strongly, according to an independent assessment conducted by the National Audit Office. The National Audit Office has been examining the performance of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and making assessments of performance in five areas: ambition, prioritisation, capacity, performance […]
This report examines the causes of persistent delays and cost increases that have affected the Ministry of Defence’s equipment contracts.
The horsemeat incident in January 2013 exposed weaknesses in control in the food supply chain.
In March 2007 we were invited by the House of Lords Select Committee on Regulators to review the way that impact assessment is performed by five regulators: Ofcom; Ofgem; Ofwat; Postcomm; and the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).
This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. As part of the planning phase and in line with good practice in project management, commissioners should prepare a thorough risk assessment with risk management strategies to mitigate the impact of any risk occurring. The risks considered should be risks to the decommissioning process itself and include […]
An independent assessment of three Regional Development Agencies – One North East (ONE), South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) – has concluded that ONE and SEEDA are performing strongly and SWRDA is performing well. The assessments by the National Audit Office are based on five criteria: ambition, prioritisation, […]
An independent assessment of three Regional Development Agencies – One North East (ONE), South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) – has concluded that ONE and SEEDA are performing strongly and SWRDA is performing well. The assessments by the National Audit Office are based on five criteria: ambition, prioritisation, […]
The Regional Development Agencies Advantage West Midlands, East Midlands Development Agency and Yorkshire Forward are all performing strongly, according to an independent assessment conducted by the National Audit Office. The National Audit Office has been examining the performance of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and making assessments of performance in five areas: ambition, prioritisation, capacity, performance […]
This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. Engaging with third sector organisations (TSOs) can provide a number of benefits. For you, it will increase your understanding of: The needs of your programme’s users and of the types of services that might best meet those needs. This will be especially effective in the case of […]
This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. Decommissioning happens in a wide range of circumstances, including: Ending a service completely i.e. no re-commissioning of a service occurs; Combining parts of existing services into a new, different one; As part of wider service redesign, where a service is no longer provided and is decommissioned or […]
This report provides information on managing PFI contracts when they end and considers whether government is preparing for expiry appropriately.
This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. In many policy and service areas, the efforts of more than one provider are needed to achieve the desired outcome. For example, using the example given above, the quality of housing will have an impact on older people’s health. You should therefore consider joined-up outcomes. These could take two forms: […]
The National Audit Office outlines eight principles that the government needs to consider if it is to achieve value for money when deciding prices in markets for public services.
This report examines whether the government secured financial sustainability across the local authority sector during COVID-19.
This report highlights the key financial results that the C&AG judges to be important to the interpretation of the audited financial statements with respect to the underlying activities and timescales involved.