Gambling regulation: problem gambling and protecting vulnerable people
Published on:This report examines the extent to which gambling regulation protects people from gambling‑related harms and addresses emerging risks.
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Decommissioning toolkit
Monitoring and evaluation: What does good practice look like?This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. The table outlines what good practice should look like in some of the key areas relating to reviewing and evaluating decommissioning. It then identifies the risks of not following this good practice and looks at how these risks might be mitigated or what actions commissioners can take […]
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Progress in tackling tobacco smuggling
Published on:Tobacco smuggling is a significant threat to tax revenues. HMRC’s renewed strategy sets out the right measures but the Department’s performance is disappointing.
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Memorandum: Service Family Accommodation update
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.
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Department for Communities and Local Government Accounts 2012-13
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his regularity opinion on the 2012-13 financial statements of the Department for Communities and Local Government. This is in respect of two breaches by the DCLG of spending limits authorised by Parliament.
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Investigation into the management of health screening
Published on:Our investigation focuses on the delivery, performance, oversight and progress implementing change on four health screening programmes.
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Investigation into the free school meals voucher scheme
Published on:This investigation sets out how the Department for Education set up and implemented the free school meals voucher scheme.
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Successful commissioning toolkit
DurationThis page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. The general rule is that the length of awards should reflect that of the undertaking being funded. Nationally, the Government, covering all departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies is committed to three-year financial agreements. This reflects the ongoing nature of services and the public sector strategic spending cycle. Locally, councils […]
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Exiting the EU: supplying the health and social care sectors
Published on:We record government’s progress in ensuring health and social care supplies should the UK leave the EU without a deal.
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Investigation into NHS Property Services Limited
Published on:This investigation builds on our previous work on NHS Property Services Limited and examines the progress the Service has made.
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Successful commissioning toolkit
Why, what and who for?This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. Constructing and maintaining good financial relationships between public bodies and third sector organisations (TSOs) has never been straightforward. If anything, achieving this has become more difficult as more and more financial relationships are made through public sector commissioning processes. But good financial relationships are important – to help achieve […]
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Progress report: Terminating the Magnox contract
Published on:This report examines the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s management of the renegotiated contract in place with Cavendish Fluor Partnership.
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Successful commissioning toolkit
Scale of financingThis page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. For a public body, widening the geographic scope, or adding to the range, of services to be delivered, and thus the financial value of a grant or contract, can deliver economies of scale. However, this can deter many third sector organisations (TSOs), which may be small organisations, […]
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Confidentiality clauses and special severance payments
Published on:There is a lack of transparency, consistency and accountability in the use of compromise agreements in the public sector and little is being done to change this.
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Improving the lives of women and girls overseas
Published on:This report assesses whether DFID’s 2018 Strategic Vision for Gender Equality is well placed to secure value for money.
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NHS financial management and sustainability 2013
Published on:There was a surplus of £2.1 billion across the NHS in 2012-13, matching that in 2011-12. However, there are signs of increasing pressure.
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Decommissioning toolkit
Good communicationThis page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. Infrequent, inconsistent, incorrect and often poorly timed communication was at the heart of nearly all the bad practice that our research found. In one case consultation had taken place two years before the decision: stakeholders were brought together but then nothing happened until the service provider was […]
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Transforming courts and tribunals: a progress update
Published on:This report describes progress following the second phase of HMCTS’s reform programme, which ended in January 2019.
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The East of England Development Agency financial statements 2011-12
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the 2011-12 financial statements of the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) because of irregular ex-gratia payments, totalling £51,000, made by the Agency to its staff.
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The rural broadband programme
Published on:The programme to make superfast broadband widely available in each area of the UK is currently expected to be delivered nearly two years later than planned.