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  1. NAO Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19

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    The NAO Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 provides details about the NAO’s work and our performance.

  2. The cost of EU Exit preparations

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    This report looks at how much government departments spent on their activities preparing for the UK’s exit from the EU.

  3. National Audit Office Strategy: Our strategy 2019-20 to 2021-22

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    We help Parliament hold government to account for spending public money and, in so doing, drive improvements in public services. To achieve this, we provide system wide, integrated and independent public audit, drawing on the distinctive framework of rights set out for us by Parliament.

  6. Successful commissioning toolkit
    A ‘level playing-field’

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. Public bodies should at all times follow public procurement policy, based on value for money, and the European Union (EU) procurement rules which exist to ensure all providers can compete for contracts on an equal basis. While procurement practices should not involve preferential treatment for third sector organisations, […]

  7. Administration of Arable Area Payments in the Netherlands, Sweden and England

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    This is a collaborative report between the National Audit Office in England, the Algemene Rekenkamer (Netherlands Court of Audit) and the Riksrevisionsverket (Swedish National Audit Office). This exercise compares the results from their three separate reports on the administration of the arable payments scheme where, under the Common Agricultural Policy, the underlying regulations are the same in all European Union countries.

  8. Successful commissioning toolkit
    Practical issues

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. Using grant While grant making is less regulated than procurement, there remain important rules you need to follow if you choose this approach as the basis for a financial relationship. Elsewhere, we discuss the need for a power to pay a grant, and for the need to […]

  9. How European cities achieve renaissance

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    As part of our work to evaluate how well the UK Government is tackling the renewal of the Thames Gateway we explored how seven European cities or regions are tackling ambitious regeneration and bringing sustainable growth and renewal to local communities. We published our research as a companion piece to the Thames Gateway report.

  10. Financial Management of the European Union

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    Today Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament on developments in the financial management of European Union funds. His report summarises the main findings of the latest Annual Report by the European Court of Auditors, published in November 2004, which covers the management of the General Budget of the European […]

  12. Preparing for trade negotiations

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    This briefing sets out government’s plans and progress to date in opening up overseas markets to UK businesses.

  13. Financial management of the European Union: A progress report

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    Head of the National Audit Office Sir John Bourn today reported to Parliament on developments in the financial management of European Union funds. His report summarises the main findings of the latest Annual Report by the European Court of Auditors, which covers the management of the General Budget of the European Union for 2002. Sir […]

  16. Exiting the EU: The financial settlement

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    This report forms part of the National Audi Office’s programme of work to examine how the government is overseeing and implementing the UK’s exit from the EU. It is our first report on the financial settlement, assessing HM Treasury’s estimate of the cost of the settlement.

  17. Financial Management in the European Union: The European Court of Auditors report for the year 2001

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    Head of the National Audit Office Sir John Bourn has reported to Parliament on the financial management of European Union funds. Today’s report highlights the main findings of the latest Annual Report by the European Court of Auditors (November 2002) which covers the management of the General Budget of the European Union for 2001. The […]

  20. Decision support tool
    Annex D: Note on channels

    This page is part of our decision support tool. Principles Government bodies’ use of the three channels (procurement, grant, grant-in-aid) available for funding the activities of TSOs has been highly inconsistent in relation to TSOs. There are a number of reasons for this: Many actual cases do not fit neatly into any one of the […]