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  1. Successful commissioning toolkit
    Clarifying your ability to intervene

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. You need to establish at an early stage that you and your organisation have the ability to undertake the activities of the commissioning process you are contemplating. This falls into three parts – legal powers; money; and authority: Legal power (also known as ‘vires’) There may be power […]

  2. Decommissioning toolkit
    Step Two: Vision

    This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. Understand the critical issues on the project and go on to develop a vision for how the project will be run in all of the areas identified within the Collaborative Relationship Model. Once project goals are clear the project team can use the Collaborative Relationship Model to […]

  7. Rolling out Universal Credit

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    In this report, we assess the value for money of the Department for Work and Pensions’ introduction of Universal Credit.

  8. Managing early departures in central government

    Report Value for money

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    Departments have acted quickly to reduce staff numbers and this should bring significant savings. To sustain these savings, and deliver long-term value for money improvements, staff numbers must stay at these reduced levels and departments must develop new ways of working.

  9. Reducing costs in the Department for Transport

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    The Department for Transport started its preparations for the 2010 spending review early and took steps to improve and challenge the evidence on which it based its decisions with a view to securing value for money.

  10. HM Revenue and Customs Renewed Alcohol Strategy: A progress report

    Report Value for money

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    HMRC’s renewed strategy for dealing with alcohol duty fraud is a significant improvement on the previous strategy. However, the Department needs a reliable estimate of the tax gaps for beer and wine; and to tackle successfully the illicit diversion of duty-unpaid alcohol back into the UK market.

  13. Successful commissioning toolkit
    Glossary of terms

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z Accountability The obligation of individuals and organisations to report on their actions and be answerable to others for what they have done. Administrative law The branch of law which governs public bodies in the exercise of their public functions. Advance payment Payment made to a provider […]

  16. DFID: Transferring Cash & Assets to the poor

    Report Value for money

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    DFID is successfully reaching particularly poor people with transfers, but needs to focus more on how cost-effectively they are delivered. 

  17. Preparations for the roll-out of smart meters

    Report Value for money

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    There are major risks the Department of Energy and Climate Change must address to achieve value for money from its £11.3 billion national programme to install ‘smart’ electricity and gas meters in all homes and smaller non-domestic premises in Great Britain from 2014 to 2019.

  20. Delivering the free entitlement to education for three- and four-year-olds

    Report Value for money

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    The Department for Education has made progress against many of its objectives in delivering the free entitlement to early education, but it must address variations in take-up, quality of provision and the impact on attainment in later years if it is to achieve value for money.