Managing the welfare cap
Published on:The welfare cap is encouraging a greater understanding of spending on some benefits and tax credits across government, but it is important that processes for managing the cap are reliable.
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Mental health services: preparations for improving access
Published on:The Department of Health and NHS England are making progress but much remains to be done to improve access to mental health services.
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English devolution deals
Published on:Devolution deals to devolve power from central government to local areas in England offer opportunities to stimulate economic growth and reform public services for local users, but the arrangements are untested and government could do more to provide confidence that these deals will achieve the benefits intended
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Investigation into the Department of Energy & Climate Change’s loans to the Green Deal Finance Company
Published on:The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Green Deal design not only failed to deliver any meaningful benefit, it increased suppliers’ costs – and therefore energy bills – in meeting their obligations through the ECO scheme.
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Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation
Published on:The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Green Deal design not only failed to deliver any meaningful benefit, it increased suppliers’ costs – and therefore energy bills – in meeting their obligations through the ECO scheme.
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Local Enterprise Partnerships
Published on:The role and remit of Local Enterprise Partnerships has grown since 2010, but the approach taken by DCLG to overseeing Growth Deals risks future value for money.
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Confiscation orders: progress review
Published on:There has been a greater focus on enforcing criminal confiscation orders, but there remain fundamental weaknesses in the system.
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BIS’s capital investment in science projects
Published on:The Department for Business, Skills and Innovation has not used good quality information to decide which science capital projects to invest in to optimise scientific and economic benefits.
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Government’s spending with small and medium-sized enterprises
Published on:If the government is serious about increasing its use of small and medium – sized enterprises (SMEs), it will need to focus on those areas where SMEs can deliver real benefits.
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Personalised commissioning in adult social care
Published on:The Department of Health now needs to gain a better understanding of the different ways to commission personalised services for users, and how these lead to improvements in user outcomes.
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Entitlement to free early education and childcare
Published on: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
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Efficiency in the criminal justice system
Published on:Despite some improvements in the management of court cases, around two-thirds of criminal trials do not proceed as planned on the day they are originally scheduled. Delays and aborted hearings create extra work, waste scarce resources and undermine confidence in the justice system.
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Financial services mis-selling: regulation and redress
Published on:The Financial Conduct Authority cannot know whether its activities are reducing the overall scale of financial services mis-selling to consumers. The most prominent example of mis-selling is Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). Between April 2011 and November 2015, firms paid out £22.2 billion in compensation to more than 12 million customers who had bought PPI.
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Accountability to Parliament for taxpayers’ money
Published on:The incentives on government Accounting Officers to prioritise value for money are weak compared to those associated with the day-to-day job of satisfying Ministers.
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Fraud landscape review
Published on:The exact scale of fraud within government is unknown. The quality and completeness of fraud data is often variable.
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Financial management of the European Union budget in 2014: a briefing for the Committee of Public Accounts
Published on:This briefing on financial management of the EU budget has been prepared for the UK Committee of Public Accounts, drawing exclusively from published material.
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Investigation into members’ experience of civil service pension administration
Published on:The NAO has published the findings from its investigation into members’ experience of civil service pension administration.
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Training New Teachers
Published on:The government needs to do more to demonstrate how new arrangements for training new teachers are improving the quality of teaching in classrooms.
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Investigation into the acceptance of gifts and hospitality
Published on:The NAO has published the findings from its investigation into the acceptance of gifts and hospitality by government officials.
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The UK competition regime
Published on:The newly-created Competition and Markets Authority has made significant progress in improving how the UK’s competition regime works, and it is now more coherent than before. Business awareness of competition law, however, is low and while it has improved the robustness of its enforcement casework, the regime has so far not produced a substantial flow of enforcement decisions or fines.