Search results for 'Housing'

Clear all filters

Showing 441 - 460 of 608 results

  1. Tackling problem debt

    Press release

    Published on:

    This report aims to evaluate and conclude on HM Treasury’s overall approach to over-indebtedness.

  2. Childhood obesity

    Press release

    Published on:

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

  3. Housing Corporation: Overseeing Focus Housing Association

    Report Value for money

    Published on:

    In April 2000, three men were sentenced to prison terms for corruption in relation to the purchase of homes, between 1991 and 1995, by Focus Housing Association from a Birmingham property dealer. Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that the Corporation’s routine reviews of Focus during that period did […]

  4. Memorandum: Service Family Accommodation update

    Briefing

    Published on:

    This memorandum has been prepared to support the Committee of Public Accounts’ consideration of the Ministry of Defence’s provision of accommodation to its service personnel.

  5. Homelessness

    Press release

    Published on:

    Homelessness has increased across all measures since 2010, with many local authorities now seeing it as a risk to their financial sustainability.

  6. Local authority governance

    Press release

    Published on:

    Our report examines whether local governance arrangements provide assurance that local authority spending achieves value and authorities are financially sustainable

  7. More than a roof: progress in tackling homelessness

    Report Value for money

    Published on:

    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today that significant success has been achieved on key Government homelessness targets. There have been large falls in the numbers of people sleeping rough and families with children living in Bed & Breakfast accommodation as an emergency response to homelessness. But more work remains to […]

  8. The Ministry of Defence’s arrangement with Annington Property Limited

    Press release

    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.

  9. The Building Schools for the Future Programme: Renewing the secondary school estate

    Report Value for money

    Published on:

    The Building Schools for the Future programme aims to rebuild, refurbish and provide new Information Technology for all 3,500 secondary schools in England by 2020. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) underestimated how long it would take to launch the programme and build the schools, though the speed of delivery has compared well […]

  10. Housing in England: overview

    Press release

    Published on:

    The need for housing in England has in recent years grown faster than its supply, and housebuilding needs to increase across the country.

  11. Private Finance Recommendations Database

    Report

    Published on:

    Reports produced by the House of Commons’ Committee of Public Accounts (the PAC) following hearings based on our PFI and PPP investigations include nearly 1000 recommendations.

    We have collected these recommendations and the related Treasury responses into a PFI and PPP/Privatisation Recommendations database last updated: 19/06/2009.

  14. Construction of Portcullis House, the new Parliamentary building

    Report Value for money

    Published on:

    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, has published his report on the construction of Portcullis House, the new Parliamentary building. Portcullis House, which provides offices for 210 Members of Parliament and 400 staff together with committee rooms and other facilities, was completed in August 2000 at a cost of £234 million. The NAO […]

  15. Success in the Regions

    Report Value for money

    Published on:

    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to parliament today that Regional Development Agencies have performed well in their first four years. In order to build on this success the relationship between RDAs and government must continue to evolve. The aim of the reports recommendations is to streamline bureaucracy and enable RDAs […]

  17. English Regions: An early progress report on the New Deal for Communities programme

    Report Value for money

    Published on:

    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to parliament today that there are early indications that the New Deal for Communities programme, under the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, is helping to tackle the problems of deprived communities and, despite some difficulties that have been encountered, the programme holds potential for […]

  18. Thames House and Vauxhall Cross

    Report Value for money

    Published on:

    Sir John Bourn, the head of the National Audit Office, today presented to Parliament his reports on the purchase, refurbishment and fitting out of buildings for the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service. These Reports were produced in 1992 and 1995 as classified reports to Parliament and in accordance with the then arrangements for […]