Government resilience: extreme weather
Published on:Government is underprepared for extreme weather events which can cause significant disruption to people, businesses, and their communities.
Government is underprepared for extreme weather events which can cause significant disruption to people, businesses, and their communities.
The NAO has reported on the 2012-22 Equipment Plan of the Ministry of Defence.
Since 2005, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has incurred a total of £642 million in financial penalties relating to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in England.
The UK’s future resilience to dangerous diseases is being undermined by decision-making failures regarding a planned health security campus in Harlow.
Good financial management is at the core of good management in government. It supports decision making and the effective running of organisations.
The report sets out central government’s risk analysis, planning, and mitigation strategies prior to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic
Government set an ambitious timetable to expand free childcare; consequently, it’s facing uncertainty on feasibility, costs, and benefits.
This report examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s progress in rolling out smart meters.
We will review previous reports to consider the critical success factors that government needs to secure value for money as it delivers its net zero and environmental targets.
Following approval by the Public Accounts Commission we have appointed a new non-executive Board member, Alistair Conner.
The Audit Committee checklist is based on the Treasury’s Audit Committee Handbook and on feedback from staff and Audit Committees. Audit Committees can assess their performance against best practice using the checklist.
This report examines government’s implementation of COVID-19 employment support schemes.
Our report looks at how DHSC is responding to the challenges facing adult social care in England, and its progress delivering reforms.
The Bank of England is overhauling its management of non-financial risks. The Bank is progressing but recognises there is more to be done.
We have reported regularly through our Value for Money audit programme that more effective risk management would enable departments to be better informed in their decisions, have a greater likelihood of meeting their aims and objectives, and help them to avoid costly mistakes.
This study will assess how well the Royal Household is delivering against its stated objectives for the Buckingham Palace Reservicing programme.
A series of lessons and recommendations for tackling fraud and protecting propriety when spending public money during a national emergency.
The Delivery Environment Complexity Analytic (DECA) is a tool developed by the National Audit Office (NAO) to provide a high level overview of the challenges, complexity and risks to delivery of a project, programme, policy or area of work.
This opinion piece looks at the challenges faced when using Agile for major digital change programmes.
This report looks at how DESNZ is set up for power sector decarbonisation while maintaining security of electricity supply, and affordability.