Each plan taken out under the government’s Green Deal cost the taxpayer over £17,000 and overall the scheme was not value for money, auditors have found.
The criminal justice system in England and Wales does not provide value for money as delays and aborted court hearings create extra work and waste scarce resources, according to the National Audit...
Departmental accounting officers have more incentives to keep ministers sweet than they do to raise concerns and safeguard taxpayers’ money, the National Audit Office has warned.
The UK’s Department for International Development needs to be better placed to ensure value for money in its response to fluid, long-term crises, the country’s public spending watchdog has said.
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has accused some Whitehall departments of “playing fast and loose with taxpayers’ money” after a report found spending on consultants and temporary staff...
Auditor general Amyas Morse has issued a qualified opinion on the 2014/15 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions’ Client Funds Accounts, which cover statutory child maintenance schemes.
Revenue & Customs loses an estimated £16bn each year due to tax evasion and fraud through the hidden economy and criminal attacks, according to a National Audit Office report today.
The electronic system intended to improve the management of the UK’s borders has not delivered value for money following spending of more than £830m over 12 years, the auditor general has concluded.
The government’s £757.1m sale of its stake in cross-Channel rail operator Eurostar did not cover the costs of public sector investment in the company and was driven by a desire to sell prior to the...
The Care Quality Commission has tackled many of the weaknesses that sparked serious criticisms of the organisation, the National Audit Office has stated, but it still needs to do more to demonstrate...
Auditor general Amyas Morse has qualified his opinion on the 2014/15 resource accounts of Revenue and Customs due to error and fraud in the payment of tax credits.
The Department for Work and Pensions 2014/15 accounts have been qualified once again because of “unacceptably” high levels of fraud and error in benefit expenditure, the National Audit Office said.
A National Audit Office report on open-book accounting creates the opportunity to develop new measures for greater transparency and accountability for outsourced public services
An IT project designed to extract data from GP practice computers came in three times over budget and almost four years late, a National Audit Office investigation has found.
Government disposal of public land for new homes was “slower than expected”, but still met the target to release enough sites to build up to 100,000 new dwellings by the end of 2014/15,...
The current system for dealing with complaints about public services is not effective and the government should create a central authority to ensure information is used to improve services, auditors...
Auditors have revealed that the government has not undertaken any reviews of the impact of new burdens on local authorities since 2009, despite a pledge by ministers to conduct at least six a year.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has set out plans to increase the transparency of government outsourcing contracts by introducing a presumption in favour of disclosing information, including...
The National Audit Office has published the Code of Audit Practice for local public bodies, which includes a duty for auditors to consider how best to gain assurance over pooled spending initiatives.
The Treasury’s Financial Management Review recommendations, scheduled to be implemented in the autumn, have been pushed back because ‘plans have gone beyond the initially stated aims...
