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  2. Departmental Overview Local authorities 2019

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    The NAO is publishing a suite of Departmental Overviews, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons Select Committees and Members of Parliament.

  3. Department for Communities and Local Government Accounts 2012-13

    Report Financial audit

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    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.

  4. Whole of Government Accounts 2018-19

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    Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Whole of Government Accounts 2018-2019.

  5. Mapping the Justice landscape 

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    This piece explains how the NAO uses spatial analytics to bring audit teams closer to the data and visualise the complex geographic relationships at work behind the scenes in the justice system.

  6. Disposal of public land for new homes: a progress report

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    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.

  8. Investigation into Starter Homes

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    This investigation sets out the status of Starter Homes policy and legislation, and the impact of government’s investment.

  10. 2012-13 review of the data systems for the Department for Communities and Local Government

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    Review of a sample of the data systems underpinning the input and impact indicators in the Department for Communities and Local Government’s Business Plan, Common Areas of Spend and wider management information.
    This review was carried out on the 2012-15 Business Plan. Revised Business Plans were issued in June 2013.

  11. Discharging older patients from hospital

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    There are currently far too many older people in hospitals who do not need to be there. Without radical action, this problem will worsen and add further financial strain to the NHS and local government.

  14. The Troubled Families programme: update

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    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.

  16. Local welfare provision

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    Overall spending on discretionary local welfare support by central and local government has reduced since April 2013. The consequences of this gap in provision are not understood.

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  20. Planning for new homes

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    This report assesses how effectively the Department supports the planning regime to provide the right homes in the right places.