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  3. Department for Work and Pensions: Tackling Benefit Fraud

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    The Department for Work and Pensions have made good progress in tackling benefit fraud and estimating the level of fraud and error in key benefits, according to the National Audit Office. By March 2002 the Department had cut the estimated level of fraud and error in Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance by 24 per cent […]

  4. The Cancellation of the Benefits Payment Card project

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament today that the failure to introduce the Benefits Payment Card had cost the Department of Social Security some £127 million in nugatory system development. Delays in the Card programme, which was part of a pioneering Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project designed also to […]

  5. Investigation into Verify

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    An investigation into Verify, the government’s identity verification platform. It examines its performance, costs and benefits.

  6. Crossrail

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    The DfT and Transport for London have done well to protect taxpayers’ interests in Crossrail but risks remain including delivery of the trains.

  7. The £13 billion sale of former Northern Rock assets

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    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.

  8. The Office of Telecommunications: Helping consumers benefit from competition in the telecommunications market

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    Oftel has taken steps to improve consumer awareness in the fixed line telecommunications market to help consumers take advantage of the choices available, according to a report presented to Parliament today by Sir John Bourn, the head of the National Audit Office. But the report recognises that while some consumers will choose not to switch […]

  9. Managing the Official Development Assistance target

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    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.

  11. Using alternatives to regulation to achieve policy objectives

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    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.

  15. 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.

  16. The Major Projects Report 2013

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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.

  19. Reform of the rail franchising programme

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    The management of rail franchising has improved since 2012 however significant risks remain to achieving value for money as the programme develops.

  20. 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.