Sentences with phrase «audit office said»

A recent report by the National Audit Office said the government had missed recruitment targets for teachers in England for four years, but the Department for Education says overall teacher numbers have risen.

The National Audit Office said schools faced an 8 % real - terms reduction in funding per pupil by 2019 - 20 and cost pressures could result in «significant risks» in making the necessary spending cuts.

The National Audit Office said the DfE should set out a «clearer vision» for the school system as a whole, to clarify how academies, maintained schools and local authorities should work together across the country.

A recent report by the National Audit Office said that schools face cuts of 8 % in real terms by 2019 - 20.

These may run into hundreds of thousands in individual cases, the LGA said, while the National Audit Office said in October there were 4,200 academy schools in England.

Earlier this year the National Audit Office said Universal Credit had been badly managed, was «overambitious» and provided poor value for money.

Just 32 % of the privately - run scheme's latest intake found jobs, below the 33 % minimum success rate demanded by the DwP and under its predicted 39 %, the National Audit Office said.

The National Audit Office said the Department for International Development (DfID) is suffering from «limited experience» in insecure countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

The National Audit Office said ministers sold shares for less than they were worth.

He says the National Audit Office says this money is for profits, not consumers.

National Audit Office says the firm had an «aggressive» programme of office closures and redundancies

Two councils acted unlawfully by letting chief executives opt out of a pension scheme to avoid potential tax payments, the Wales Audit Office says.

The move on school funding follows a campaign by head teachers over cash shortages - with the National Audit Office saying that schools faced a # 3bn funding gap.

The chancellor is promising # 216m to renovate schools - while the National Audit Office says that bringing schools up to standard would cost # 6.7 bn.

They have protested that budgets have not kept up with rising costs - and highlighted a report from the National Audit Office saying schools face # 3bn in spending cuts.

Not exact matches

«A company can't be in the position of giving tax advice to employees,» says Steve Burt, an audit partner in the Austin office of the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand LLP.

It's «the first time that nearly all legislative audit offices in Canada have coordinated their work in this way,» the report says.

However, the audit was abruptly put on hold so that the UK's Information Commissioner's Office could get to the site first to conduct their own investigation, Facebook said in an updated post.

Facebook's second blog post on Monday, saying Cambridge Analytica had agreed to an independent audit, had to be walked back when the auditors ceased work on orders from the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office, which is pursuing its own investigation.

The audit office has said there is little to stop the misuse of payments made to individuals receiving funds under the National Disability I...

Park Board President Tom Lewis said Commissioner Mike O'Neill, the board treasurer, exceeded his authority by searching for audit records in the district office Monday.

«There was no accounting for basic cash transactions,» said Prazak, who said he notified the state comptrollers office that he could not complete the audit it had requested.

The committee said the published email exchange between HMRC and the National Audit Office made it clear staff had been motivated by cost considerations when deciding not to remove sensitive data.

The National Audit Office (NAO) said the 16 biggest defence projects had seen a slippage of 139 months and increase in costs of # 468 million over the last 12 months.

In its analysis of administration cost savings caused by the Public Bodies Reform programme, the National Audit Office (NAO) decided to exclude bodies associated with the Department of Health (the department subject to the largest administration cost changes), saying «the major reorganisation and transfer of functions between NHS bodies since 2010 made the analysis too problematic» (NAO 2014, p. 40).

We believe these have ensured the long term sustainability of the scheme as does the National Audit Office which says that costs are falling as planned.

He said he was ready to go public with the audit, but the district attorney's office asked him not to.

In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Stringer said he understands how some «disenfranchised» voters will see his office's audit as a potential conflict of interest.

«The MoD is in the difficult position of needing to maximise financial savings by cutting headcount before it has detailed plans for how it will operate in the future,» Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said.

There are serious risks to value for money from the aircraft carrier project in the strategic defence and security review, the National Audit Office (NAO) says.

«It's disappointing that the Comptroller's Office, which spent close to a year on this audit, has chosen to ignore every metric put into place to measure the effectiveness and impact of the multiple advertising campaigns run by ESD,» Conwall said.

After an audit by the Erie County Comptroller's office bore out whistleblowers» claims of inflated billing and inadequate training, Urban League President Brenda McDuffie and her supporters say it's a political witch hunt.

Now, unavoidably, his continuing work — his office pumps out near - daily audits — is colored by the scandal: As a Daily News headline said, COMPTROLLER WHO SPENT 180G IN STATE CASH ON WIFE CHIDES HEALTH DEPT. OVER FUNDING.

Comptroller Scott Stringer said his office has audited NYCHA nine times in the last four years.

In an email Tuesday night, the SUNY chancellor's office said: «We strongly reject the assertions made by the Comptroller in this «audit.»

Commenting on today's publication of the Wales Audit Office report on «Health Finances 2012 - 13 and Beyond», Aled Roberts, who is a member of the Public Accounts Committee, said:

Brian Butry, a spokesperson for the OSC, said it is not uncommon for his office to audit credit cards used by fire companies and local governments, but there is no targeting of credit cards for audits.

The review will examine NYRA's response to two earlier comptroller audits, which called for significant cost reductions, including salaries and consultant fees, DiNapoli's office said.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer said his office has audited NYCHA nine times in the last four years, which has uncovered issues such as broken and missing windows, financial mismanagement and maintenance backlog of 55,000 repairs

The mayor downplayed Stringer's proposed new role by saying the comptroller's office already has the power to audit how the city spends taxpayer money and that he welcomed the governor's promise of additional resources to improve the shelters.

NYC's Administration for Children's Services failed miserably in implementing recommendations made in a 2015 audit that found kids are being put at risk by the agency's renewal of contracts with poorly performing vendors, the state Comptroller's Office said.

Donohue said his office cooperated with Conners and has heard nothing since; Conners said Wednesday that audit results remain pending.

Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said the department's new aid targets would be «higher risk».

In a new audit, City Comptroller Scott Stringer says the board does not have accurate records for more than 1,400 pieces of election and office equipment.

Citing a report by the National Audit Office, Corbyn said 41,000 children would not be covered by the changes and raised concerns that childcare providers can not afford to meet the target extension.

«Insufficient accountability» makes it impossible to know if the Pensions Regulator is delivering value - for - money, the National Audit Office (NAO) said today.

Commenting on the report by the National Audit Office (NAO), Oversight of financial management in local authority maintained schools, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:

And George Osborne says public sector pensions are «unsustainable» but the National Audit Office disagrees and Lord Hutton's report showed the cost of public sector pensions is falling.

County lawmakers on a committee charged with overseeing the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency say that they remained unaware of a State Comptroller's Office audit of the agency, even as they discussed a deal expected to funnel millions of dollars in added revenue to the public benefit corporation.

Speaking on the audit findings on Newsfile, Mr Kwakye said Mrs Attionu has «has been to EOCO (Economic and Organised Crimes Office) over a dozen times and has fully cooperated with the investigations that EOCO is conducting.»