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  1. Office of Fair Trading: regulating consumer credit

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    Regulation of the consumer credit market is providing benefits to consumers, but is not minimizing consumer harm from unscrupulous trading practices.

  4. Progress in making NHS efficiency savings

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    The NHS made a substantial amount of efficiency savings in 2011-12. These will need to be sustained and built on if savings targets are to be met.

  5. Streamlining farm oversight

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    Farm oversight activity does not deliver value for money for the taxpayer and continues to burden compliant farmers unnecessarily.

  9. Managing the expansion of the academies programme

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    The rapid expansion of the programme has been a significant achievement, but the DfE was unprepared for the scale of the financial implications.

  10. Tax avoidance: tackling marketed avoidance schemes

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    HMRC is making some headway in reducing opportunities for tax avoidance, but over 100 new schemes have been disclosed in each of the last four years.

  11. Financial Management at the BBC

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    The BBC demonstrates sound financial management but must align its spending decisions more closely with its strategic priorities.

  12. Overview of Ofgem 2011-12

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    This briefing on Ofgem, a non-ministerial government department, is similar to the briefings we are producing on the 15 major government departments. It is produced primarily as a briefing for the Environment and Climate Change Committee, and is based on Ofgem’s annual report and accounts and our own work relevant to Ofgem.

  14. Managing risk reduction at Sellafield

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    There are significant uncertainties in plans for cleaning-up Sellafield. The Authority is working to understand and address project under-performance.

  15. Managing the impact of Housing Benefit reform

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    DWP is working to manage the introduction of the housing benefit reforms and has a critical role to play in anticipating adverse consequences.

  16. Fact Sheet: Whole of Government Accounts 2010-11

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    This Fact Sheet highlights key figures in the Whole of Government Account, audit findings and recommendations. It may also be used by a range of users to obtain a quick overview of the accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General’s audit opinion.

  17. Funding for local transport: an overview

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    As the funding and provision of transport decentralises, this report gives an overview of the landscape and highlights issues and risks.

  18. Managing budgeting in government

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    The Government’s ability to show that its spending decisions represent the best value for money is being hindered by the patchy availability of good information.

  19. Department for Work and Pensions: Contract management of medical services

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    The C&AG has today made available on the NAO website a short report prepared for the Department for Work and Pensions on the Department’s management of its contractual relationship with its primary medical services provider, along with the Department’s response to his recommendations.

  20. Submission of evidence: Controls on regulation

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    The Better Regulation Executive is currently reviewing controls on regulation. This document is the National Audit Office’s submission to that review. It is based on a combination of our previous work and new work with five case study departments earlier this year.