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  1. Improving the prison estate

    Report Value for money

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    This report examines the condition and capacity of HM Prison and Probation Service’s prison estate.

  2. The economic regulation of the water sector

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    Since privatisation, Ofwat and Defra have overseen major improvements in water quality and service quality. Customers have seen a marked rise in bills but not the benefits of companies’ unexpected financial gains.

  3. Financial services mis-selling: regulation and redress

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    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.

  4. The higher education market

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    Young people are making complex choices about higher education without much effective help and advice, and the institutions concerned are under very little competitive pressure to provide best value.

  5. E20: renewing the EastEnders set

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    This report examines whether the BBC has managed E20 in a way that is likely to achieve value for money.

  6. Market Analytic Toolkit: for assessing public service markets

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    This toolkit is designed to guide those overseeing public service markets or assessing the effectiveness of these markets in terms of value for money and user outcomes. It helps government address a set of new challenges around its use of markets to deliver public services, including oversight, consumer protection, regulation and helping to achieve effective competition and innovative delivery.

  7. Network Rail’s sale of railway arches

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    This report examines the value for money of Network Rail’s sale of a major part of its commercial real estate portfolio.

  8. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s Magnox contract

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    The NDA’s fundamental failures in the Magnox contract procurement raise serious questions about its understanding of procurement regulations and its ability to manage large, complex procurements.