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  4. The packaging recycling obligations

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    This report identifies lessons from the management and performance of the packaging recycling obligation system.

  5. The introduction of the Work Programme

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    The Department for Work and Pensions has introduced the Work Programme quickly, in just over a year, and this has had benefits, but the speed with which it was launched has also increased risks. The Department and providers have made assumptions about how many people the Programme will get back into work but there is a significant risk that they are over-optimistic.

  6. Online Fraud

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    Online fraud is now the most commonly experienced crime in England and Wales, but has been overlooked by government, law enforcement and industry.

  8. Report of the C&AG on the Department for Work and Pensions Resource Accounts 2008-09

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    The head of the National Audit Office, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has today qualified the accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions for the 20th consecutive year.  The accounts have been qualified because of the material level of fraud and error in expenditure on state benefits, except for State Pension which has a […]

  9. Department for Work and Pensions 2015-16 accounts

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2015-16 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is owing to the unacceptably high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure, other than State Pension where the level of fraud and error is lower.

  10. Tax measures to encourage economic growth

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    Although government provides billions in tax reliefs each year to encourage growth, it does not monitor or evaluate them closely enough.

  11. Fraud landscape review

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    The exact scale of fraud within government is unknown. The quality and completeness of fraud data is often variable.

  12. HM Revenue & Customs 2020-21 Accounts

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    Gareth Davies, the Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office, has reported on the 2020-21 accounts of HM Revenue & Customs.

  13. COVID-19 business grant schemes

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    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.

  16. Competitive and demand-led grants: good practice guide

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    The Cabinet Office estimates that government commits around £130 billion to grants each year – nearly 20% of all government spend. Grants are an important delivery mechanism for policy across government, not just centrally but also in agencies, local authorities and other bodies across the public sector.

  17. Department for Work and Pensions Resource Accounts 2006-07

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, has today qualified his opinion on the Department for Work and Pensions accounts for the eighteenth consecutive year. This is because an estimated £2.5 billion has been lost to fraud and error in benefit payments, and because of uncertainties over the debts created by customers being […]

  18. Department for Work and Pensions Resource Accounts 2005-2006

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    Head of the National Audit Office Sir John Bourn has today reported to Parliament that he is qualifying his opinion on the accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is because of substantial levels of estimated losses from fraud and error in benefit payments and material uncertainties about the level of debt resulting […]

  20. Investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix

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    HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) contract with Synnex-Concentrix UK Ltd was terminated in November 2016. The contract was designed to add capacity to HMRC’s programme of interventions to prevent or detect error and fraud in personal tax credits awards. HMRC estimated that the contract would save £1 billion over its three year life time and an estimated £193 million, excluding Concentrix’s costs, had been saved by the time of contract termination.