The UK border – Post UK-EU transition period
Published on:This report examines the government’s progress in managing the border and implementing the Northern Ireland Protocol since the end of the transition period.
This report examines the government’s progress in managing the border and implementing the Northern Ireland Protocol since the end of the transition period.
This guide will help ARACs recognise how climate change risks could manifest themselves and support them in challenging senior management on their approach to managing climate change risks.
The report sets out central government’s risk analysis, planning, and mitigation strategies prior to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic
This report describes the Home Office’s progress on delivering the Emergency Services Network programme, and sets out the main risks it faces.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) set up the Restart scheme to help people made unemployed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This report considers the performance of the scheme so far.
This study assesses how effectively the Department for Education is supporting education recovery in schools following the COVID-19 pandemic.
This report looks at BEIS’s oversight of the schemes, its understanding of what the schemes achieved, and how well it worked with local authorities.
List of cookies used by the NAO website, and how to manage them.
These good practice guides share practical tips on improving the quality and efficiency of day-to-day services provided by government.
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has been processing standard driving licences at normal levels following the backlog that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are still delays in applications from drivers with medical conditions, according to the National Audit Office.
The Government has made progress delivering its latest strategy to share back-office services across Whitehall departments in the past year, but remaining barriers will need to be addressed for it to deliver its plans by 2028 and achieve value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
We outline how the pandemic has moved many aspects of our lives online, helping us stay connected but making us more vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
The NAO’s good practice guide for managing the commercial lifecycle The government’s response to the COVID-19 global pandemic has drawn renewed, and possibly unprecedented, attention to public procurement and commercial practice in government. Our aim at the NAO is to provide an independent and evidence-based perspective, on how public authorities can achieve better outcomes and value […]
The NAO’s policies and procedures for delivery its work are available to the public on request. This includes technical guidance and the Audit Manual.
Ambulances need to travel fast! Ambulance drivers must take risks that regular drivers do not. This includes running red lights and travelling at high speeds through busy roads. However, to avoid accidents, precautions are taken to manage risks. The driver is trained, there are flashing blue lights and loud sirens. Delivering programmes at speed requires […]
This report assesses whether the BBC is on track to deliver value to its users from its digital transformation.
The shielding programme was a swift government wide response to identify and protect clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people against COVID-19. Our recent report on Protecting and supporting the clinically extremely vulnerable during lockdown, shows how government quickly recognised the need to provide food, medicines and basic care to those CEV people shielding. This had to […]
Public bodies should demonstrate robust, independent oversight of both their contractual arrangements and overall commercial portfolios
Data visualisation describing changes in English local authorities’ financial circumstances over the last decade.
This report examines whether government has an effective approach to enhancing workforce skills.