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  1. Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund Account

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    The NAO welcomes the progress being made by the Northern Ireland Social Security Agency in reducing levels of fraud and error in benefit payments.

  2. The first sale of shares in Lloyds Banking Group

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    The Government’s first sale of shares in Lloyds Banking Group was managed very effectively by United Kingdom Financial Investments Limited.

  3. Confiscation Orders

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    The use of confiscation orders to deny criminals the proceeds of their crimes is not proving to be value for money.

  4. Council Tax Support

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    Not all local authorities’ Council Tax support scheme will achieve the objectives outlined by the Department of Communities and Local Government.

  6. Managing the prison estate

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    The current strategy for the prison estate has provided good quality accommodation, but has resulted in the closure of several prisons that were performing well.

  7. Establishing Free Schools

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    Many new Free Schools have been established quickly and at relatively low cost but the DfE will need to tackle a rising cost trend and systematically learn lessons from problems in a few early wave schools.

  8. Department for Work and Pensions 2012-13 accounts

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    The DWP has not to date achieved value for money in the development of Universal Credit and to do so in future it will need to learn the lessons of past failures.

  10. Helping consumers to manage their money

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    The Service has achieved value for money for debt advice but has not yet shown that its money advice is achieving value for money.

  12. The Cup Trust

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    The NAO found that the Charity Commission did not properly consider whether The Cup Trust met the key legal requirement of being within the jurisdiction of the High Court of England and Wales before registering it as a charity in 2009, and was slow in handling the case.

  13. Programmes to help families facing multiple challenges

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    Two government programmes aiming to help families with multiple challenges, such as unemployment and anti-social behaviour, are starting to provide benefits but considerable challenges remain.

  14. Savings from operational PFI contracts

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    Progress on the Government’s initiative to achieve £1.5 billion worth of savings from operational PFI contracts.

  15. Student loan repayments

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    BIS will not be well-placed to secure value for money on student loan repayments until it has a more robust strategy to improve collection performance.

  16. The Levy Control Framework

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    The Levy Control Framework is a valuable tool for supporting control of costs to consumers arising from government energy policies, but it has not been fully effective in key areas.

  17. Gift Aid and reliefs on donations

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    HMRC and the Treasury do not know if incentives designed to increase charitable giving, at a cost to the taxpayer of £940 million in 2012-13, have resulted in more income for charities.

  18. The Ministry of Justice’s electronic monitoring contracts

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    This memorandum sets out the events surrounding the Ministry of Justice’s process to re-compete its electronic monitoring contracts and its subsequent decision to commission a forensic audit of these contracts

  19. Infrastructure investment: the impact on consumer bills

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    Large-scale infrastructure spending by the private sector over ten years or more will increase consumer utility bills but government and regulators do not know by how much or whether the bills will be affordable.

  20. Maternity services in England

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    Most women have good outcomes from NHS maternity services, but there are significant and unexplained variations in performance around the country.