NHS England’s management of the primary care support services contract with Capita
Published on:In this report, we assess whether NHS England managed the PCSE contract with Capita effectively to secure the intended benefits
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Investigation into the 2017 auction for low-carbon electricity generation contracts
Published on:This report sets out the history of Contracts for Difference and how the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy designed the 2017 auction, including the changes it made to the rules related to the capacity cap, and the impact these changes had.
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Investigation into oversight of the Student Loans Company’s governance, and management of its former chief executive
Published on:This investigation describes the events surrounding the appointment and dismissal of the Student Loans Company’s former chief executive officer. It sets outs the Department for Education’s role in oversight of the Company and how it responded to the concerns raised by two Company staff.
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Early progress in transforming courts and tribunals
Published on:In this report we outline what HM Courts and Tribunals Service’s (HMCTS) change portfolio to modernise and upgrade the justice system will deliver, consider early progress against plans and explore how HMCTS and its partners have managed the change portfolio and the risks it faces in the future.
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Exiting the EU: The financial settlement
Published on:This report forms part of the National Audi Office’s programme of work to examine how the government is overseeing and implementing the UK’s exit from the EU. It is our first report on the financial settlement, assessing HM Treasury’s estimate of the cost of the settlement.
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Ensuring sufficient skilled military personnel
Published on:This report reviews whether the Ministry of Defence has an effective approach to developing the capability of its regular forces, and how it is adapting to meet the new challenges.
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Investigation into the Department for Transport’s decision to cancel three rail electrification projects
Published on:This investigation sets out the decision-making process, leading to the July 2017 announcement of the cancellation of three rail electrification projects: the Midland Main Line north of Kettering (to Nottingham and Sheffield); the Great Western Main Line between Cardiff and Swansea; and the Lakes Line between Oxenholme and Windermere.
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Investigation into errors in Employment and Support Allowance
Published on:This investigation covers a single, major cause of underpayment error in ESA. This error relates to people whose existing benefit claim was converted to ESA and who were entitled to income-related ESA but were only awarded contribution-based ESA.
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Financial sustainability of local authorities 2018
Published on:This report reviews developments in the sector and examines whether the Department, along with other departments with responsibility for local services, understands the impact of funding reductions on the financial and service sustainability of local authorities.
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The BBC’s commercial activities: a landscape review
Published on:This report, our first on this subject, is a landscape review of the BBC’s commercial activities, setting out how the BBC organizes these activities and the key risks and challenges they currently face.
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Reducing emergency admissions
Published on:The report examines progress that the Department of Health & Social Care, NHS England, NHS Improvement and other stakeholders are making in reducing the impact of emergency admissions on acute hospitals. The report takes a whole-system approach, and looks at action across acute, primary, community and social care systems.
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Low carbon heating of homes and businesses and the Renewable Heat Incentive
Published on:The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is a scheme to encourage a switch from fossil fuel heating systems to renewable and low-carbon alternatives in homes and business premises in Great Britain. Our report assesses the value for money of the RHI for Great Britain.
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Converting maintained schools to academies
Published on:This report focuses on the arrangements for converting schools to academies. We assess the Department for Education’s approach and the extent of conversion; the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process; and the availability of sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to academies.
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The adult social care workforce in England
Published on:The Department of Health & Social Care’s role in overseeing the adult social care workforce.
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Investigation into clinical correspondence handling in the NHS
Published on:How NHS England has handled a backlog of 374,000 items.
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Home Office: Investigation into the Disclosure and Barring Service
Published on:The progress made by a programme to modernise the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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Ministry of Defence: The Equipment Plan 2017 to 2027
Published on:The affordability of the Ministry of Defence’s Equipment Plan.
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The Ministry of Defence’s arrangement with Annington Property Limited
Published on:The Ministry of Defence (the Department) has committed itself to annual rental bills of nearly £200 million and lost out on billions of pounds of asset value as a result of selling and leasing back the majority of its married quarters estate to Annington Property Limited in 1996 because of the subsequent steep increase in house prices and rents.
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Implementing the UK’s Exit from the European Union: The Department for International Trade
Published on:In this publication we set out how DIT is preparing to deliver an effective exit from the EU.
25 January 2018
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Sustainability and transformation in the NHS
Published on:Additional funding, aimed to help the NHS get on a financially sustainable footing, has instead been spent on coping with existing pressures.