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  4. Resilience to flooding

    Report Value for money

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    We look at the government’s long-term ambition “to create a nation more resilient to future flood and coastal erosion risk” and, in the more immediate term, whether Defra and EA are delivering value for money after two years of the capital programme.

  5. Crown Commercial Service

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    It is not possible to show that the Crown Commercial Service has achieved more than departments would otherwise have achieved by buying common goods and services themselves.

  6. Insights teams

    Our Insights teams provide insights and expertise on how public services can be improved.

  8. The Equipment Plan 2016-2026

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    The risks to the affordability of the Ministry of Defence Equipment Plan are greater than at any point since reporting began in 2012.

  9. Decision support tool contents

    Decommissioning toolkit Introduction What is this decision support tool (DST) for? How to use this decision support tool (DST) General Principles Applying the general principles A ‘level playing-field’ The design process Stage 1. Prior decisions Stage 2. Strategic decisions Establish specific purpose Choose a funding channel Define contract scale Join up funding streams Stage 3. […]

  11. Managing the welfare cap

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    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.

  12. Managing flood risk – raw data files

    The files below are the raw data that powers our data visualisation tool. We have provided these .csv format files as an accessible alternative for those who are unable to make use of the data visualisation. Please download and analyse in your preferred assistive technology. Flood risk tool Flood Defences by Region.csv This dataset provides […]

  13. Companies in Government

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    Since 2010 there has been an increase in the number of companies in government at the same time as a reduction in the number of public bodies which raises issues of transparency, accountability, governance and review.

  16. Accountability to Parliament for taxpayers’ money

    Insight Good practice guides

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    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.

  17. Cyber and information security: Good practice guide

    Insight Good practice guides

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    Audit committees should be scrutinising cyber security arrangements. To aid them, this guidance complements government advice by setting out high-level questions and issues for audit committees to consider.

  18. Successful commissioning toolkit
    Risk management

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. This section summarises sections on risk management in “Intelligent Monitoring: an Element of Financial Relationships with Third Sector Organisations” published by the National Audit Office in 2009. What is risk management? Any financial agreement carries some risk [Note 1].  Manage risk, do not seek to eliminate it.  […]

  20. Delivering value and accountability – CIMA and NAO expert panel report

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    Fiscal pressure on government departments is set to continue through the next Parliament, with citizen expectations continuing to rise. With the ‘more for less’ challenge continuing indefinitely and an increasingly complex public sector landscape, a strong and integrated finance function across government is crucial.