Sentences with phrase «audit office»

It means 28 % of secondary physics lessons are taught by teachers with no more than an A-level in the subject, the National Audit Office report says.

«Following an Australian National Audit Office report in December that found that spending on specialist consulting contracts had grown from more than $ 200 million in 2012 - 13 to more than $ 500 million in 2016 - 17, the joint committee of public accounts and audits has asked government departments and agencies to explain their procurement spends.»

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.

The Australian National Audit Office found when it audited the respondent funding scheme in the 2006 ‑ 2007 year16 (under the old guidelines), there was a concerning lack of data about how the scheme is being administered and a resulting lack of analysis on its effectiveness and necessity.

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:

The consulation comes after a critical National Audit Office published this morning that found the DfE had no strategy for school finances — as schools face making # 3 billion of efficiency savings over the next four years.

G4S and Serco have been heavily criticised by the National Audit Office for underperforming on a # 620 million deal to house asylum seekers.

Britain's National Audit Office warned of risks in the sector in 2013, highlighting a government focus on what it called «short - term savings».

The National Audit Office highlights a funding shortfall of # 3 billion due to the real terms cuts schools face.

Head teachers have been warning about job losses caused by cash shortages, with the National Audit Office estimating schools will have to cut # 3bn from budgets by 2019 - 20 to meet rising cost pressures.

The National Audit Office also says speed was being prioritised over value for money and many schools were not in areas of need.

A damning report by the National Audit Office last year found «the programme suffered from weak management, ineffective control and poor governance,» and «has not achieved value for money.»

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.

For example, in 2006, the Australian National Audit Office observed that:

«In addition, the National Audit Office recently reported that it would cost an estimated # 6.7 billion to return all school buildings to satisfactory or better condition.»

He alluded to a contested audit his office conducted last year that alleged the New York City Housing Authority failed to meet its own standards for hiring residents.

National Audit Office release damning report into viability of controversial London project

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

«In its 2012 report Improving Student Attendance, the Queensland Audit Office found students with attendance rates of 85 per cent or less [due to unexplained reasons] are: four times more likely to be suspended or excluded; 1.5 times more likely to not finish Year 10; and 3.5 times more likely to not obtain an Overall Position (OP) 1 - 15.

The recent report from the National Audit Office recommended that the government should continue funding the pupil premium but should do more to encourage schools to use the most cost - effective interventions.

GMO Internet has also set up an information security audit office for the entire group.

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Restoring all schools to a satisfactory condition may cost billions, a report by the National Audit Office shows.

This itself may well underestimate the need for new teachers, as the National Audit Office points out that it «does not aim to resolve pre-existing teacher shortages, including those caused by previously missed recruitment targets».

The Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office raised serious concerns about the legality of the health department contract, describing it as a «back room deal» which had been «handed to Dr Foster on a plate».

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.

National Audit Office head Amyas Morse said: «HS2 is a large, complex and ambitious programme which is facing cost and time pressures.

Parliamentary committees (particularly the Public Accounts Committee) and the public audit offices should be pressing for stepped overlapping series (that is, the numbers worked out in the old way and the new way) to be provided every time the definition and categorization of administration costs changes.

Roll forward eight years and we now have the National Audit Office confirming that as much as # 410 million of taxpayer's money has already been wasted by PPP.

«We will maintain the independence of the BBC, and give the National Audit Office full access to the BBC's accounts to ensure transparency.

There are already signs of a purge of the digital chiefs put in place by GDS, despite the National Audit Office citing continuity of leadership as critical.

Serco's contract running the immigration detention centre Yarls Wood came just after the announcement of a National Audit Office inquiry into how it was spending taxpayer money amid allegations it had «inflated certain figures».

He survived a no confidence vote in February 2014 after the Wales Audit Office ruled the council's chief executive Mark James had received «unlawful» pension payments.

The National Audit Office noted in the 1980s that the longer someone spent on unemployment benefit before going into self - employment, the less successful that tended to be.

We suggested the National Audit Office look at the figures in 2012 and they found that only about six per cent of government spending was directed at early action.

National Audit Office chief Amyas Morse comments as he publishes a report on the procurement of consumables by NHS trusts:

This latest report from the National Audit Office explores the Department for Transport's (DfT's) # 30M contribution towards the development of the proposed pedestrian bridge over the Thames in central London.

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.

A recent report by the National Audit Office suggests that each of the Astute class submarines currently underway will take an average of nine months longer than scheduled to be completed.

A June 2003 report by the National Audit Office expressed deep concern about a number of aspects of the service provided by PFI prisons.

The # 4bn of schools funding over five years - well short of the # 8bn cuts over four years that the National Audit Office calculated in December - is covered by scrapping universal free school meals for infant school children.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats launched the attack following the publication of a damning report by the Welsh Audit Office.

The National Audit Office believe that PFIs do not give taxpayers value for money and that stricter criteria needs to be followed in commissioning and proceeding with them.

The funding move comes after the National Audit office explained that the government would need to spend around # 6.7 billion in order to bring every school to a «satisfactory» condition.

«I have already accepted the eight recommendations within the Northern Ireland Audit Office report and these are being progressed by my department.»

Schools are also struggling to retain staff, with the National Audit Office figures stating 8 % of qualified staff left the profession for reasons other than retirement in 2016.