Improving Single Living Accommodation
Published on:This report examines whether single living accommodation meets the needs of the Ministry of Defence and service personnel.
This report examines whether single living accommodation meets the needs of the Ministry of Defence and service personnel.
The NAO’s governance arrangements ensure that we operate effectively and transparently with due oversight while maintaining our independence.
The National Audit Office (NAO) is the UK’s independent public spending watchdog. We support Parliament in holding government to account and we help improve public services through our high-quality audits.
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.
This report examines the performance, implementation, procurement and management of the Green Homes Grant scheme.
The Digital Services Tax has raised more revenue than forecast by the Government and increased the amount of UK tax paid by big digital companies. HMRC’s compliance work is ongoing and it has yet to identify any non-compliance among business groups, according to a report by the National Audit Office.
This report examines if government is achieving its ambition for the public sector to be a leader in decarbonising its activities.
The Government did not meet its goal of transferring by 1 June 2014 all people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, for whom it was appropriate, from mental hospitals into the community.
It’s revealing to look at the timeline of digital transformation initiatives over the last 25 years. Government’s ambition for ‘world class’ services using joined-up systems and data goes back to the mid 1990s, from where we can trace a steady stream of policies and initiatives right through to last autumn’s National Data Strategy. Most of […]
National Audit Office Programme and Areas for Consideration. Document proposing the Office’s programme of work for the coming year and suggested areas for consideration in the future. It is not a definite plan of work, and may differ from the current work in progress.
Good regulation can be used to achieve a range of different aims and opportunities. It can support innovation, make workplaces safer, or help to keep essential services affordable.
This opinion piece looks at the challenges faced when using Agile for major digital change programmes.
This impacts case study shows how our international work can help improve the independence and financial audit standards of other countries’ audit offices.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
In September 2021, the NAO hosted a virtual seminar From COVID-19 to Net Zero: How can regulation respond to change? It was an opportunity to hear from thought leaders in regulatory policy and practice on adapting to change in challenging times. Regulation in the UK has entered a period of considerable change, from EU Exit […]
The report examines the timeliness of auditor reporting on English local public bodies’ financial statements covering 2019-20.
This report applies experience from auditing cross-government challenges to highlight the risks government needs to manage to achieve net zero.
All three projects examined by the NAO have experienced significant delays stemming from a range of problems.
The NAO’s work includes looking at a huge range of government activities, and the setting up and managing of commercial arrangements are central to many of them. This became very clear when looking back at twenty years of our work auditing government’s spending and reporting on its value for money for taxpayers. Over this time, […]
This impacts case study shows how our work and identification of the cost of inadequate consumer protection was a catalyst for improvements to consumer law and delivery and accountability arrangements.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
This report evaluates whether Defra’s management of new tree-planting schemes is likely to achieve value for money.