This short guide is one of 17 we have produced covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Communities and Local Government during the last Parliament.
For combined authorities to deliver real progress they will need to demonstrate that they can drive economic growth and contribute to public sector reform.
The Department for Communities and Local Government has shown commitment to financial leadership and governance and has improved its financial management over the last couple of years. However, there is more to do for the department to embed good financial management throughout the department and to improve the financial and business management skills of its […]
This report considers lessons DLUHC has learned from implementing local growth policies, and how it has applied them.
This new report responds to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee to examine local government and net zero.
This report examines whether the government secured financial sustainability across the local authority sector during COVID-19.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has launched a four-week consultation seeking views on changes to the Code of Audit Practice.
Additional funding, aimed to help the NHS get on a financially sustainable footing, has instead been spent on coping with existing pressures.
We recommended that the Department for Communities and Local Government improve its evaluation of the impact of funding changes on local authorities’ financial sustainability.
This NAO impacts case study represents one example where there has been some beneficial change, whether financial or non-financial, resulting from our involvement.
Briefing note to support the APPG for Cycling and Walking’s inquiry into DfT’s forthcoming Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy 2.
DCLG has made good progress in its design of 100% local business rates retention but faces a challenging timescale for delivery.
The government’s 2021 drugs strategy has provided fresh impetus to the efforts to tackle harm to society from illegal drugs, but it will need to address uncertainties about future funding, gaps in the evidence base and a lack of focus on prevention, if it is to achieve its objectives, according to a National Audit Office report.
The Department of Health & Social Care’s role in overseeing the adult social care workforce.
Last updated – 13 January 2017 Notes 1) The breakdown of the local population in each Local Authority is based on the following: a. For the gender and ethnicity comparisons, the breakdown is based on 10-14 year olds residing in the local authority at the time of the 2011 Census. Published by the Office for […]
This guide has been produced to support the Levelling up, Housing & Communities Committee in its examination of the Department for Levelling up, Housing & Communities’ (DLUHC’s) spending and performance for 2021-22.
Homelessness has increased across all measures since 2010, with many local authorities now seeing it as a risk to their financial sustainability.
The Better Care Fund has not achieved the expected value for money, in terms of savings, outcomes for patients or hospital activity.
Our report aims to increase transparency by taking stock of what the Homes for Ukraine scheme has achieved to date, for what cost, and what can be learned.
A report from the pages of the House of Commons Speakers Committee. The Committee’s report presents two pieces of work by the National Audit Office covering the Electoral Commission and the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
The report examines the timeliness of auditor reporting on English local public bodies’ financial statements covering 2019-20.