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  3. The Help to Buy equity loan scheme

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    The Help to Buy equity loan scheme is improving access to mortgage finance, but the scheme’s costs will be substantial.

  4. Investigation into the collapse of the UnitingCare Partnership contract in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

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    In December 2015 a five year contract, worth around £800 million between UnitingCare Partnership and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough clinical commissioning group collapsed after only 8 months because it ran into financial difficulties. NAO examined the design, procurement and operation of the contract and the events that led to its termination.

  6. Personal Independence Payment: early progress

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    The DWP has had to delay the Personal Independence Payment programme’s roll-out and reduce expected savings during this Spending Review period.

  7. Responding to change in jobcentres

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    The jobcentre network has coped well in the economic downturn, but must improve performance measures if it is to support claimants effectively.

  8. Electronic monitoring – a progress update

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    This report sets out the NAO’s assessment of the delivery of the electronic monitoring (‘tagging’) transformation programme.

  9. Progress with the New Hospital Programme

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    The New Hospital Programme (NHP) has experienced delays and is expected to deliver 32 of the intended target of 40 new hospitals by 2030.

  10. Decommissioning toolkit
    Understanding costs

    This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. Commissioners and providers need to be clear about the costs, savings and benefits of providing a service if they are to avoid poor decommissioning decisions. Understanding costs should include an understanding of direct costs, indirect costs (including overheads), short-term and long-term costs (such as the rent on […]

  11. Managing debt owed to central government

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    Government is owed a large amount of money but has no overall view of its debt reduction objectives nor of the financial risk that the debt poses.

  12. Evaluation in Government

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    Treasury expects all departments to evaluate the ex post impacts and costs of all their interventions, including spending, taxation and regulation. This activity should provide valuable information on the cost-effectiveness of government interventions, for the purposes of accountability and to learn lessons to improve current and future policies.

  14. Equipment Plan 2013 – 2023

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    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.

  15. Follow-up on the Charity Commission

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    The Charity Commission has made early progress in addressing NAO and Public Accounts Committee recommendations, but significant challenges remain.

  19. Investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix

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    HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) contract with Synnex-Concentrix UK Ltd was terminated in November 2016. The contract was designed to add capacity to HMRC’s programme of interventions to prevent or detect error and fraud in personal tax credits awards. HMRC estimated that the contract would save £1 billion over its three year life time and an estimated £193 million, excluding Concentrix’s costs, had been saved by the time of contract termination.

  20. The Police Uplift Programme

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    This report examines whether the Home Office is well placed to deliver value for money from the Police Uplift Programme.