Update on preparations for Smart Metering
Published on:The economic case for the smart metering programme remains positive but there are significant risks and challenges to successful implementation, which must be managed.
The economic case for the smart metering programme remains positive but there are significant risks and challenges to successful implementation, which must be managed.
Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Department for Work and Pensions’ annual report and accounts 2019-20
HM Treasury is improving the content of the Whole of Government Accounts, which shows the overall financial position of the UK public sector, and the document has been produced faster than ever.
This study assesses how effectively the Department for Education is supporting education recovery in schools following the COVID-19 pandemic.
A National Audit Office (NAO) report assessing the Home Office’s progress delivering its asylum and protection transformation programme.
The DWP has not to date achieved value for money in the development of Universal Credit and to do so in future it will need to learn the lessons of past failures.
The Department for Work and Pensions has not yet achieved value for money in managing contracted-out health and disability assessments.
Improvements have been made to the running of the Regional Growth Fund, but there is still a significant amount of public money to allocate through the Fund.
An investigation into Verify, the government’s identity verification platform. It examines its performance, costs and benefits.
There are currently far too many older people in hospitals who do not need to be there. Without radical action, this problem will worsen and add further financial strain to the NHS and local government.
The disposal of former Northern Rock mortgages and loans in 2015 was the government’s largest ever financial asset sale. When judged against the Government’s objective to shrink the balance sheet swiftly the deal was value for money.
The NAO have investigated concerns that online sellers outside the EU are avoiding charging VAT.
The Department for International Development met, for the calendar year 2013, the government target to spend 0.7% of the UK’s annual gross national income on overseas aid.
The DfT and Transport for London have done well to protect taxpayers’ interests in Crossrail but risks remain including delivery of the trains.
Significant annual savings worth tens of billions of pounds are available through improving public sector productivity, the head of the NAO will say.
This report looks at the Restart scheme, DWP’s employment support response for people who are long-term unemployed.
There are some good examples across government of alternatives to regulation being used to achieve policy objectives. However more needs to done to share these examples to highlight when alternatives are most likely to work and how they should be designed.
We focus on specific concerns about the financial support provided to students attending some alternative HE colleges and other providers.
The management of rail franchising has improved since 2012 however significant risks remain to achieving value for money as the programme develops.
MOD’s procurement budget is now more stable, despite a £754m increase in the cost of the carriers, but there are still risks to the affordability of the equipment plan.