Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), has qualified his opinion on the 2015-16 accounts of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
This report examines waiting time standards for elective and cancer treatment and factors associated with performance in meeting these standards.
The NAO has published its report on the 2010-11 accounts of HM Revenue and Customs.
The NAO has investigated how NHS Shared Business Services handled its backlog of unprocessed clinical correspondence.
HMRC’s civil investigations directorates, which examine serious cases of suspected tax evasion, have generated increasing returns from their work, while reducing resources. However, there is scope for them to achieve more.
This investigation looks at the centralisation and performance of national security vetting services.
Despite numbers of staff employed by central government falling slightly over the last decade, costs have increased by 10 per cent.
On 15 January 2018, Carillion declared insolvency and the Official Receiver, an employee of the Insolvency Service, started to liquidate its assets and contracts. This report focuses on the role of the UK government in preparing for and managing the liquidation of Carillion.
The Points Based System doesn’t deliver its full value for money potential, while poor data and monitoring hampers the removal of failed applicants.
This investigation examines issues related to individuals the BBC hires as freelancers, particularly those hired through personal service companies.
This report examines whether the government is likely to meet its ambitions for children and young people’s mental health services.
The Department must make the best use of the capital funding it has available by continuing to increase the use of data to inform its funding decisions and by creating places where it can demonstrate that they will have the greatest impact.
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.
By transferring ownership or leases of around 60 per cent of its estate (591 properties) to a private contractor, Mapeley, in 2001, the Inland Revenue and HM Customs & Excise planned to reduce their running costs and had the opportunity to save up to £1.2 billion by reducing the size of the estate. However, in […]
The NAO have investigated concerns that online sellers outside the EU are avoiding charging VAT.
This report examines whether the NHS is well placed to get value for money from its investment in developing new care models through vanguards.
UK Government says it is on track to meet target to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020. Local authorities’ ability to secure suitable school places and houses a risk to success. NAO estimate programme will cost £1.12bn by 2020.
The delivery of the Government’s programme to control chlamydia infection in young people to date has not demonstrated value for money, a report by the National Audit Office found today. The Department of Health implemented the Programme in three phases. In 2008-09, six years after the Programme’s launch, testing levels were only just beginning to […]
Our strategy 2016-17 to 2018-19 sets out how the NAO will meet our new challenges and maximise our effectiveness to support Parliament in holding government to account and improving public services, and the resources we need to do this.
There is no collective understanding of what type of oversight is appropriate and cost effective for different types of arm’s length bodies.