Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme – progress review
Published on:This report assesses the scheme’s performance against its objectives, its management, and plans for the future of the scheme.
This report assesses the scheme’s performance against its objectives, its management, and plans for the future of the scheme.
The NAO is publishing a suite of short guides for the new Parliament, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons select committees and members of Parliament.
This investigation outlines the government’s strategy and objectives for managing land disposals and the progress of several key disposal programmes.
How NHS England has handled a backlog of 374,000 items.
The National Audit Office has today published the results of its investigation into the governance of the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership, following concerns raised by Stephen Barclay MP (North East Cambridgeshire).
For combined authorities to deliver real progress they will need to demonstrate that they can drive economic growth and contribute to public sector reform.
This Overview looks at the local government landscape during the last financial year and summarises both matters of likely interest to Parliament as well as our work with local authorities. The NAO prepares statutory guidance on how local auditors should meet their responsibilities.
The need for housing in England has in recent years grown faster than its supply, and housebuilding needs to increase across the country.
This report reviews developments in the sector and examines whether the Department, along with other departments with responsibility for local services, understands the impact of funding reductions on the financial and service sustainability of local authorities.
DCLG has made good progress in its design of 100% local business rates retention but faces a challenging timescale for delivery.
This report is a factual update to support the Committee of Public Accounts’ evidence session on the government’s Troubled Families programme on 19 October 2016. It is based primarily on published sources, information supplied by the Department for Communities and Local Government and previous reports published by the National Audit Office.
This report covers recent trends in pressures on children’s social care demand and activity and national and local government’s response.
This Departmental Overview looks at the Department for Communities and Local Government and summarises its performance during the year ended March 2016, together with our recent reports on it.
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has made progress in setting up its new programme to release enough public sector land for 160,000 homes by 2020 but the programme has had a relatively slow start.
Homelessness has increased across all measures since 2010, with many local authorities now seeing it as a risk to their financial sustainability.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has responsibilities within the framework for the audit of local public bodies. This leaflet provides information on our role, examples of our recent value-for-money work focused on local services, our 2016-17 work in progress and contact details for you to provide views and suggestions or to ask questions about our work.
The Better Care Fund has not achieved the expected value for money, in terms of savings, outcomes for patients or hospital activity.
This document summarises the findings of our work and identifies sources of help that may be useful to local areas and government departments supporting local public service reform.
The Department for Education recognised since 2010 that child protection services are not good enough but its subsequent response has not yet resulted in better outcomes. Spending on children’s social work, including on child protection, varies widely across England and is not related to quality. Neither the DfE nor authorities understand why spending varies.
Local authorities have kept up levels of capital spending but face pressure to meet debt costs and maintain investment in existing assets.