Follow-up on the Charity Commission
Published on:The Charity Commission has made early progress in addressing NAO and Public Accounts Committee recommendations, but significant challenges remain.
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Management of Telephones in the Benefits Agency
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Getting it right, putting it right – Improving decision-making and appeals in social security benefits
Published on:Following reforms to decision-making and the appeal process in social security benefits, introduced in 1999 by the Department for Work and Pensions, the number of appeals against decisions has fallen overall by around 15 per cent and waiting times for appeal hearings have been cut. Since the reforms, decision-making performance for some benefits, but not […]
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Department of Social Security – Benefits Agency – Performance Measurement
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High Speed 2: A review of early programme preparation
Published on:The strategic case for HS2, in terms of increasing rail capacity and generating regional growth, has still to be demonstrated clearly.
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Cabinet Office and HM Treasury – Integration across government
Published on:By operating in a more integrated way, government could reduce inefficiencies in public services and deliver a better service to citizens.
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Ministry of Defence: Maximising the Benefits of Defence Equipment Co-Operation
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today told Parliament that defence equipment acquisition was an inherently complex and often expensive task. Co-operation adds another layer of complexity. It also offers potential economic, military, industrial and political benefits but in the past not all of these have been secured. Recent initiatives from the […]
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The Police Uplift Programme
Published on:This report examines whether the Home Office is well placed to deliver value for money from the Police Uplift Programme.
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Universal Credit: getting to first payment
Published on:This report examines how the DWP is managing the process of getting to first payment in Universal Credit.
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Planting Trees in England
Published on:This report evaluates whether Defra’s management of new tree-planting schemes is likely to achieve value for money.
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Payments of Social Security Benefits to Overseas Customers
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Achieving net zero
Published on:This report applies experience from auditing cross-government challenges to highlight the risks government needs to manage to achieve net zero.
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The effective management of tax reliefs
Published on:HM Treasury and HMRC do not keep track of tax reliefs intended to change behaviour, or adequately report to Parliament on whether tax reliefs work as expected.
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Universal Credit: early progress
Published on:Universal Credit plans were driven by an ambitious timescale, and this led to the adoption of a new approach. The programme suffered from weak management and ineffective control.
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Department for Work and Pensions annual report and accounts 2018-19
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on the 2018-19 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
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A commentary for the Committee of Public Accounts on the Work Programme outcome statistics
Published on:This commentary, on the first set of Work Programme data, has been produced for the Committee of Public Accounts.
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Department of Social Security – Measures to Combat Housing Benefit Frau
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Government grant services
Published on:Government has given less attention to grants than to other policy funding mechanisms, despite grant funding being higher in value, making up 41 per cent (£292 billion) of its total expenditure.
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Specialist skills in the civil service
Published on:This report examines the progress the government has made in developing specialist skills in the civil service.
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Department of Social Security – Housing Benefits
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