The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2014-15 accounts of the DWP, owing to the unacceptably high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure.
The first in a series of blogs looking at the Commercial Lifecycle covers data.
The C&AG has published his audit opinions for 2018-19 on the 1993, 2003 and 2012 Child Maintenance Schemes.
The National Audit Office (NAO) is the UK’s independent public spending watchdog. We support Parliament in holding government to account and we help improve public services through our high-quality audits.
Our report examines whether MHCLG’s framework allows for the management of risks to local authorities from commercial property investment.
This report examines whether the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund is likely to deliver value for money.
AI presents the government with opportunities to transform public services potentially delivering billions of pounds in productivity savings.
This is the second NAO report on government’s approach to test and trace services in England.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on the 2018-19 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
One in five people on Tax Credits who were invited to move to Universal Credit (UC) did not then claim UC and had their benefits stopped, according to a new report by the National Audit Office (NAO). The coalition government proposed UC in 2010 to replace six means-tested benefits for working-age households.1 DWP estimates that […]
This report looks at how effectively government met the needs of clinically extremely vulnerable through the shielding programme.
The NAO’s work includes looking at a huge range of government activities, and the setting up and managing of commercial arrangements are central to many of them. This became very clear when looking back at twenty years of our work auditing government’s spending and reporting on its value for money for taxpayers. Over this time, […]
This management report examines how the National Offender Management Service planned and is implementing the restructure of its headquarters.
This investigation describes the scheme’s purpose and how it functions, performance to date, and how government manages value-for-money risks.
Since we first published our Framework to review programmes in 2017 there has been no let-up in NAO reports on major projects and programmes, most recently on Crossrail, the Emergency Services Network and the Stonehenge by-pass road. From the need to manage the risks of untried approaches to signs warning of unrealistic cost estimates, this […]
This impacts case study shows how our work and identification of the cost of inadequate consumer protection was a catalyst for improvements to consumer law and delivery and accountability arrangements.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
This report examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s progress in rolling out smart meters.
This report sets out the process by which MHCLG chose the 101 towns in England it invited to develop Town Deals.
This impacts case study shows how our identification of data and management weaknesses was pivotal in leading to the implementation of actions to address them.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
This report examines the implementation of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.