This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Cabinet Office during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Home Office during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for International Development during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on HM Revenue and Customs during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Work and Pensions during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Ministry of Justice during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department of Energy and Climate Change during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Education during 2011-12.
This Departmental Overview is one of 15 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Transport during 2011-12.
The Cabinet Office will have to work with other government departments to ensure that the full benefits of its shared services strategy are realised.
There is a lack of transparency, consistency and accountability in the use of compromise agreements in the public sector and little is being done to change this.
The Government has not in general measured the benefits delivered by its two central internet services Directgov and Business.gov, and the infrastructure service Government Gateway, which together cost some £90 million a year.
HMRC’s civil investigations directorates, which examine serious cases of suspected tax evasion, have generated increasing returns from their work, while reducing resources. However, there is scope for them to achieve more.
Our compliance checklist should help Departments and other bodies to assess where they have complied with and adhered to”Corporate Governance in Central Government Departments: Code of Good Practice 2011 (the Code)”, and to identify areas of non-compliance that need to be explained and described in their annual governance statement.
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reporting today on the implementation of Integrated Project Teams1 (IPTs) by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) told Parliament that the teams had been introduced rapidly and successfully but needed to evolve further. He also reported that firm direction was now needed from the MoD to maintain […]
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported the results of his examination of HM Customs and Excise’s systems for the assessment, collection and allocation of tax revenue during the year ending 31 March 2002. Customs collected £150 billion (gross) in revenue in 2001-2002. In April 2001 the Department reorganised along functional […]
This report examines whether the Bank of England has a sufficiently ambitious strategy for developing efficient and cost-effective Central Services.