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• Performance Measurement Practice: The use of sanctions and rewards in the public sector (September 2008)
  This report contributes to the debate on incentivising public sector performance. It brings together the evidence on the effectiveness of sanctions and rewards, summarises the results of our survey on their use in central government, and provides a practical guide on how to use them well.
  • Performance Measurement Practice: The use of sanctions and rewards in the public sector (1,090 Kb)
  • The use of sanctions and rewards in the public sector: Literature review (440 Kb)
• National Audit Office briefing - Administration of time-limited compensation schemes
  • Full Report (440 KB)
• In 2004, the Chancellor of the Exchequer asked Sir Philip Hampton, a leading businessman, to lead a review of regulatory inspection and enforcement. The review’s recommendations, known as the Hampton Report, published in March 2005, set out an ambitious programme to reduce the burdens on business created by regulatory systems.
  The National Audit Office has today (18 July 2008) sent a report to HM Treasury summarising the results of reviews conducted on five regulators looking at how far they are living up to the principles originally set out by Sir Philip Hampton aimed at reducing burdens on business. The reviews were carried out at the request of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and were organized jointly by the Better Regulation Executive and the National Audit Office. The individual reviews were published in March 2008.
  • Regulatory quality: How regulators are implementing the Hampton vision (388 KB)
  • Effective inspection and enforcement: implementing the Hampton vision in the Environment Agency (376 KB)
  • Effective inspection and enforcement: implementing the Hampton vision in the Financial Services Authority (384 KB)
  • Effective inspection and enforcement: implementing the Hampton vision in the Food Standards Agency (324 KB)
  • Effective inspection and enforcement: implementing the Hampton vision in the Health and Safety Executive (324 KB)
  • Effective inspection and enforcement: implementing the Hampton vision in the Office of Fair Trading (387 KB)
  • Hampton Implementation Reviews - Guidance for Review Teams (575 KB)
• Protecting staff in PPP/PFI deals
  This report analyses the terms and conditions received by staff working on PPP/PFI contracts in 2004. It examines the extent to which the staff who were formerly in the public sector received different terms and conditions to those received by staff recruited by the contractor. The report presents the results of a 2004 survey of operational PFI deals that covered 67 per cent of PFI deals by capital value at that time. (It is important to note that new Government policies have been introduced since the deals in the survey were signed and therefore the results of the survey cannot be used to draw conclusions on the terms and conditions received by staff working in PFI contracts signed more recently.)
• Full Report (419 KB)
• Proposed light rail schemes in Leeds, Manchester and South Hampshire. A review by the National Audit Office of the role of the Department for Transport.
  • Full Report (144 KB)
  • Press Notice
  • Letter from Moir Lockhead, Chief Executive of FirstGroup (76 KB)
• Letter to RICS about the implementation of Home Information Packs (August 2007)
  • Full Report (156 KB)
• Public funding of Large National Charities - Good Governance Report
  • Full Report (210 KB)
• Performance Measurement Practice: Good Governance Study - Targeting Inequalities
  • Full Report (792 KB)
• Local Area Agreements and the Third Sector: Public Service Delivery
  • Full Report (210 KB)
• Homebuilding: Measuring Construction Performance (June 2007)
  • Full Report (219 KB)
• Office of the Third Sector - Implementation of Full Cost Recovery (June 2007)
  • Full Report (225 KB)
  • Press notice
• Audit bodies join forces to drive value for money agenda (May 2007)
  • Press notice
  • Full Report (876 KB)
  • Finance indicators (106 KB)
  • HR indicators (152 KB)
  • ICT indicators (78 KB)
  • Estates Management indicators  (71 KB)
  • Procurement indicators (159 KB)
• Joining forces to deliver improved stroke care
  • Press notice
  • Full report (2.8 MB) NB: This version can be viewed online but cannot be printed.
  • Purchase paper copy from The Stationery Office (£19.95)
• Following the enactment of the 2006 Fraud Act, there is for the first time a legal definition of fraud. The National Audit Office's 'Combating Fraud Position Statement', covers client fraud identified in the course of financial audit and value for money examinations and links to our already well established approach towards money laundering. This statement also covers controls in place to prevent fraud and money laundering within our own organisation.
  • Full statement (84 KB)
• Review of the experiences of United Kingdom nationals affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami (November 2006)
  • Full report (1240 KB)
  • Press notice
• Report by the National Audit Office: Getting the best from public sector office accommodation
  • Report (1444 KB)
  • Case Studies (1414 KB)
  • Flexible managed office space decision Tool (195 KB)
• Report by the National Audit Office: A Framework for evaluating the implementation of Private Finance Initiative projects
  • Volume I (365 KB)
  • Volume II (502 KB)
• NAO, Audit Commission, Commission for Social Care Inspection and Healthcare Commission: combined programme of health and social care studies for 2006-07 and studies proposed for 2007-08 Full text (152 KB)
• PSA Target: Performance Information. A survey report on the views of departmental Finance Directors and PSA Target Owners on working with Public Service Agreements Full text (108 KB)
• Memorandum produced by the National Audit Office, in response to a request by Andrew Selous MP, on the A5 Dunstable Queue Relocation Scheme Full text (160 KB)
• Department for International Development - Engaging with Multilaterals Full Report (884 KB) Overseas Development Institute Report: International comparisons (416 KB), the views presented in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the NAO. (December 2005)
• Northern Ireland Policing Board Best Value Performance Plan for 2005-06: Links to Full Report  Executive Summary and press notice
• Using modern methods of construction to build homes more quickly and efficiently Executive Summary (136 KB) Full Report (1520 KB) Supporting files, and press notice
• The following document has been presented to the Public Accounts Committee for its hearing into Patient Choice at the Point of GP Referral (31 October 2005) - Knowledge of the Choose and Book Programme Amongst GPs in England: An update of the 2004 survey of GPs' opinions for the National Audit Office: Main Report 2005 (980 KB)
• Letter from the Comptroller and Auditor General to the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (10 October 2005): Independent Review Panel report on the collapse of the Paddington Health Campus (118KB)
• Response to Freedom of Information request concerning the July 2005 report on Maintaining and improving Britain’s railway stations (275 KB)
• HM Revenue & Customs 2004-05 Landfill Tax and the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme Section 2 Report Full Report (150 KB)
• The Crown Estate - Property Leases with the Royal Family (165 KB)
• Northern Ireland Policing Board Best Value Performance Plan for 2004-05: Links to Full Report (270 KB), Executive Summary (118 KB) and press notice
• Duke of York's Travel Arrangements - Summary of National Audit Office Findings (185 KB)
• Accounts Audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General
• From the Need to Know to the Right to Know: The role of the Department for Constitutional Affairs, The Information Commissioner's Office and central government in implementing the Freedom of Information Act across Government. (434KB) (November 2004)
• Northern Ireland Policing Board Best Value Performance Plan for 2003-04: Links to Full Report  Executive Summary and press notice
• Counting down - moving from need to know to right to know: A good practice guide for public authorities implementing Freedom of Information. (197KB)
• Advice for Consumers: Choosing the best electricity supplier for your needs (January 2001)
• Good practice in tackling external fraud Press notice
  The NAO and HM Treasury guide 'Good Practice in tackling external fraud' has been revised.
  The new edition will be launched at the 'Taking Forward the Fight against Fraud' Conference on 24 and 25 June at 2 Savoy Place. Further details are available here.
• Investigation into concerns raised by the William Pears Group about the conduct of the competition for the NHS Estates PPP (429 KB) (January 2004)  
• NAO review of the procurement of Government Advertising (June 2003)
• NAO Sampling Guide (863 KB)
• Report of a Survey of Local Criminal Justice Board Chairs (December 2003)

International

• International Education Comparisons - A compendium of published information on education provision and achievement in 10 countries(2.81 MB) (August 2006)
• State Audit in the European Union (December 2005)
• International Education Comparisons: A Compendium of published information on educational provision and achievement in 10 countries (May 2003)
• International Health Comparisons: A Compendium of published information on healthcare systems, the provision of health care and health achievement in 10 countries (February 2003)
• In 2008, the National Audit Office published ‘Department for Work and Pensions: Progress in tackling benefit fraud’ and in 2006 it published ‘International benchmarking of fraud and error in social security systems.’ These reports have been translated into Russian by the World Bank and we make them available here. The National Audit Office does not guarantee the accuracy of these translations.
  • Department for Work and Pensions: Progress in tackling benefit fraud (2008) – Russian language version (1.7MB)
  • International benchmarking of fraud and error in social security systems (2006) – Russian language version (1.75MB)
     

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