[PDF] Top 20 Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General

... our report on HMRC’s 2011-12 accounts, it has started to collect cost data for debt collection activities, but these data are not yet reliable or robust enough to identify the costs of all its collection ... See full document

... 1.6 Durand plans to educate pupils in years 9 to 11 in new boarding facilities outside South London. It has purchased a site for this, a vacant boarding school, in West Sussex, which it plans to develop and expand. The ... See full document

... The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), Amyas Morse, is an Officer of the House of Commons and leads the NAO, which employs some 860 ...and report to Parliament on whether departments ... See full document

... Sealed cover with superscript “Quotation for Comprehensive Annual Maintenance Contract for LAN System” addressed to “The Director (P), Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, 9, Deen ... See full document

... 10 In 2014-15, authorities incurred £3.5 billion of capital spending on education. Arrangements for local authority capital spending on education have been radically restructured since 2010-11. The Department for ... See full document

... Performance for Employment and Support Allowance claimants who have completed the programme (11 per cent) is still below expectations (22 per cent) and previous programmes (12 per cent[r] ... See full document

... 5.2 When reviewing departmental submissions, HM Treasury’s General Expenditure Policy team drew on the expertise of other teams internally, including on capital (paragraphs 2.9 and 4.5 to 4.7). The central team ... See full document

... g Cabinet Office and HM Treasury should continue to work on achieving a seamless link between the single departmental plans as a tool for continuous business planning and performance man[r] ... See full document

... Annual Report published in June 2016, the IMB recommended that the use of handcuffs for hospital visits should be investigated to ensure that efforts are made to limit its use, while addressing any security ... See full document

... 3 The periodic spending reviews managed by HM Treasury, which determine high-level allocations of funding to departments, have for some years formed a consistent feature of government’s approach, though with gradual ... See full document

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... 4 Key facts Support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in England Key facts 1.3m £9.4bn 81.3% pupils in England identified as having special educational needs an[r] ... See full document

... 14 The Department has limited evidence that its initiatives to retain and develop the teaching workforce are making a difference. The Department found in 2015 that its longest-established programme – teaching schools, ... See full document

... This is because such receipts and payments are based on maintenance assessments calculated over several years and I consider the historic level of error in these maintenance assessments [r] ... See full document

... 20 Support for care leavers varies widely between local authorities but there is no relationship between how much they spend and the quality of their support. In 2013-14 local authorities spent on average £6,250 for each ... See full document

... 3.10 Most costs of young people not being in employment, education or training do not fall on local authorities. However, central government departments with a financial interest in the success of care leavers lack the ... See full document

... 23 The Department cannot demonstrate that it is meeting its objectives to improve the quality of care and the stability of placements for children through the £2.5 billion spent by local authorities; it has no indicators ... See full document

... 2 Children’s early experiences can have long-term impacts on their emotional and physical health, social development, education and future employment. Children in care do less well in school than their peers. They are ... See full document

... Employers report high levels of satisfaction with the training offered and benefits experienced, but surveys of apprentices provide a less clear view on quality of ... See full document

... 17 DfE is managing individual risks associated with delivery of components of the current change programme in an appropriate way. The Apprenticeships Directorate has embarked on a wide range of initiatives in support of ... See full document