Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency accounts 2011-12
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the 2011-12 accounts of the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency.
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The accounts of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and of the Rural Payments Agency 2011-12
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General, has published his audit opinion on the 2011-12 accounts of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Rural Payments Agency.
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The government’s long-term plans to deliver secure, low carbon and affordable electricity
Published on:Investment of £110bn in electricity infrastructure is needed by 2020 to meet increase in demand, to provide back-up capacity, and because of scheduled closure of one fifth of existing capacity.
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Offshore electricity transmission: a new model for delivering infrastructure
Published on:Using competition to award companies licences to transmit electricity from offshore wind farms has benefits but consumers might end up bearing the cost of inflation.
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Preventing fraud in contracted employment programmes
Published on:Reported fraud in Employment Programmes is low despite past flaws such as in the New Deal. New improvement controls are better, yet risks remain.
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Carbon capture and storage: lessons from the competition for the first UK demonstration
Published on:This competition was launched in 2007 with insufficient planning and recognition of the commercial risks and cancelled four years later. With commercial scale carbon capture and storage technology still to be developed, DECC must learn from the failure of this project.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Financial Management Report 2011
Published on:Despite the fact that the Defra has made improvements in its financial management, the NAO cannot yet conclude that the Department is achieving value for money in its financial management activity.
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Flood Risk Management in England
Published on:Giving greater responsibility and discretion to local authorities to identify flood risk and target investment raises significant challenges, especially during a time of budget cuts and other newly devolved responsibilities. Greater value for money can be achieved through these reforms, but key elements of what is required are not yet in place.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Managing front line delivery costs
Published on:Defra needs good cost information to scrutinise and challenge its arm’s length bodies, so that it can reduce costs with minimal disruption to frontline services.
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2010-2011 accounts
Published on:The NAO has published its report on the 2010-11 accounts of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Rural Payments Agency 2010-2011 financial statements
Published on:The NAO has published its report on the 2010-11 accounts of the Rural payments Agency.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Geographic information strategy
Published on:DEFRA has delivered some value from the £39.3 million spent on its geographic information strategy and activities. However, a lack of financial information means that the NAO cannot determine that value for money has been achieved.
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Preparations for the roll-out of smart meters
Published on:There are major risks the Department of Energy and Climate Change must address to achieve value for money from its £11.3 billion national programme to install ‘smart’ electricity and gas meters in all homes and smaller non-domestic premises in Great Britain from 2014 to 2019.
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Assessing the cost to public funds of animal diseases
Published on:Commentary on cost data provided by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to the Advisory Group on Responsibility and Cost Sharing
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Sustainable development
Published on:Sustainable development is a devolved issue and this briefing covers government policy in England with a brief overview of the work of the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Environmental protection
Published on:The National Audit Office has prepared this briefing on environmental protection for the new members of the Environmental Audit Committee
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The Electricity Generating Landscape in Great Britain
Published on:This briefing for the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee provides an overview of the key features of the policy and regulatory framework for electricity generation, and the nature of the transition required over the next 10 years to meet emissions reduction and renewable energy targets.
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Rural Payments Agency 2009-2010 financial statements
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the 2009-10 accounts of the Rural Payments Agency because of inaccurate assessments of payments made to farmers under the Single Payment scheme.
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2009-2010 resource accounts
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion on the 2009-10 accounts of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the grounds of regularity.
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Tackling diffuse water pollution in England
Published on:The Environment Agency’s approach to tackling diffuse water pollution, such as run-off from agricultural land, has not, to date, proved value for money. The development of River Basin Management Plans now offers an opportunity to target work by the Agency and others to tackle this complex problem.