Sentences with phrase «on national audit»

In September 2017 I also commented on the National Audit Office report into rising clinical negligence costs here.

The MPs» investigation builds on a National Audit Office report in February which said billions were being spent on free schools while many existing school buildings were crumbling.

The MPs» investigation builds on a National Audit Office report in February which said billions were being spent on free schools while many existing school buildings were are not at an appropriate standard.

Shadow employment minister Stephen Timms comments on the National Audit Office's report revealing the government overegged the impact of its work programme:

Indeed, the 2017 Audit of UK Democracy judges them, along with the post-hoc spending scrutiny work of the Public Accounts Committee (acting on the National Audit Office's reports), as «one of only two areas where the Commons is clearly contributing to detailed policymaking».

Health secretary Andrew Lansley comments on the National Audit Office's report on the procurement of consumables by NHS trusts:

RCP comment on National Audit Office Report (Reducing Alcohol Harm: Health services in England for alcohol misuse)

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

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That, in light of $ 3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring Report of the Auditor General of Canada, an order of the House do issue for the following documents from 2001 to the present, allowing for redaction based on national security: (a) all Public Security and Anti-Terrorism annual reports submitted to the Treasury Board Secretariat; (b) all Treasury Board submissions made as part of the Initiative; (c) all departmental evaluations of the Initiative; (d) the Treasury Board corporate database established to monitor funding; that these records be provided to the House in both official languages by June 17, 2013; that the Speaker make arrangements for these records to be made available online; and that the Auditor - General be given all necessary resources to perform an in - depth forensic audit until the missing $ 3.1 billion is found and accounted for.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is «throwing away millions» of tax payers money on poorly designed private finance initiative (PFI) projects, according to national audit office (NAO) statistics released today.

Only half the data systems used to measure progress on the government's public service agreement (PSA) targets are fit for purpose, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

Opening of High Speed 2's London to Birmingham phase is already at risk of delay according to a new report by the National Audit Office (NAO) which highlights cost and schedule pressures on the project.

«The National Audit Office report on reducing alcohol harm makes sobering reading.

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

According to a National Audit Office report, HMPPS and NHS England do not have accurate data on how many prisoners are mentally ill, or how many people are waiting to be transferred to secure hospitals.

There is another MPA assessment due this month, and with the information commissioner demanding the details of the amber - red reports are released, the public accounts committee to debate the details of the stinging National Audit Office report, and a ruling on legal appeals all due for July, the answer for government is simple: get the vote on the paving bill through before any of that happens, whilst trying to con MPs in affected constituencies that if they don't vote for it, the compensation pot will run dry.

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

The commission is also empowered to advise the Minister on fiscal and other issues pertaining to the petroleum industry, establish framework for the validation and certification of national hydrocarbon reserves, undertake evaluation of national reserves and reservoir management studies as well as conduct regular audits of the activities of operators engaged in petroleum operations and oil service companies in order to ensure compliance with Nigerian laws and requirements for petroleum operations.

The Commons» environmental audit committee (EAC), publishing a report on the issue today, said the number of health problems and deaths is a «national scandal».

The Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866 appointed The Committee of Public Accounts to oversee the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG)[1] The Committee continues to be assisted by the C&AG who is a permanent witness at its hearings, along with his staff of the National Audit Office, who provide briefings on each report and assist in the preparation of the Committee's own reports.

Today's report by the Public Accounts Committee into the National Audit Office's report on Managing the costs of clinical negligence in the NHS concludes the Government has been sluggish in its response to these predictable rising costs which are taking scarce resources away from frontline services and patients.

A report due to be published next month by the National Audit Office (NAO) is expected to criticise the Department of Health for failing to properly consult with health staff on the IT upgrade, and Lord Warner today admitted this was «a fair criticism in part».

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:

A difficult day for the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith with a critical report from the National Audit Office on the implementation of the Universal Credit leading the news bulletins.

Republican Congressman Chris Gibson's bipartisan legislation requires the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control to audit available research on vector - borne diseases like Lyme disease.

The Coalition parties will have different views on this, so we will be reviewing the balance of the EU's competences, to provide a national audit of what the EU currently does and its implications for our country.

The other key area is the post hoc scrutiny of government spending achieved by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), acting on the reports of the independent National Audit Office, the UK's «supreme audit institution» (or Audit Office, the UK's «supreme audit institution» (or audit institution» (or SAI).

Hague's audit will document what the EU does and how it affects the UK, focussing in particular on whether it is in Britain's national interest.

As part of the National Fraud Initiative, every other year, the Audit Commission analyses metadata deriving from council tax accounts together with the full electoral register to produce lists of people it believes should be subjected to an investigation on the basis that there is a risk that a discount is being received when an adult who does not fail to be disregarded is actually resident in the dwelling.

As the National Audit Office reports on the cost of the free schools programme, Natalie Evans and Avis Gilmour debate the value of the free schools project.

Employers seeking guidance in instituting pay equity in their own companies can access the National Committee on Pay Equity's Self - Audit, which provides a ten - step guide for evaluating current organizational pay policy and implementing equity - inducing changes where necessary.

The research, based on an analysis of all 19 reports on PPPs produced by the National Audit Office, will form a key part of an assault on existing public - private schemes by Lib Dem treasury spokesman Matthew Taylor.

In the summer a National Audit Office (NAO) report showed money was being wasted because civil servants were struggling to hit the legal requirement of spending 0.7 per cent of the nation's income on overseas aid.

For more ideas, visit the «do - it - yourself energy audit tool» on the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Home Energy Saver website.

Expansion in the use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)-- the minimally invasive surgery performed on heart patients instead of using drugs — is seeing more patients with acute coronary syndromes treated more quickly, according to the latest National Audit of PCI (covering 2012).

The National Audit Office's report on British coastal defences last year highlighted breaches of Hurst Spit in Hampshire, which «are due mainly to the construction of concrete sea walls and groynes further to the west in Christchurch Bay, which interrupted the natural drift of replenishing material».

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The auditor, John Bourn, head of Britain's National Audit Office, also recommends that the organisation should formulate a policy for «dealing with the important and sensitive issues» of contracts awarded to countries represented on its executive board, which elects the director - general.

That's why, as part of our support to schools on meeting the national school food standards, the School Food Trust has developed a comprehensive Audit and Inspections toolkit.

Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said: «Training a sufficient number of new teachers of the right quality is key to the success of all the money spent on England's schools.

In 2012, the National Audit Office (NAO) was commissioned to investigate the impact that central government funding had on meeting increased demand as the rise in the number of children born in England between 2001 and 2011 was the largest ten - year increase since the 1950s and the legacy of previous Comprehensive Spending Reviews was impacting on available funding.

Research by the National Audit Office has shown that for every # 1 a business spends on an apprentice, # 18 is paid back into the UK economy.

The National Audit Office (NAO) has provided an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the Department for Education's (DfE's) financial statements.

Measuring performance The National Audit Office published a report on managing the expansion of the academies programme, which evaluated the implementation of the programme from May 2010.

The National Audit Office (NAO) has questioned the Department for Education's (DfE) spending on teacher training bursaries without measuring whether they are effective.

Today (Tuesday 12th September 2017), the National Audit Office has released a report on Developing and Retaining the Teacher Workforce.

The inquiry, which will be held on May 2, was prompted by the National Audit Office's report in February which noted that two thirds of maintained schools rated «inadequate» took longer than «nine months to open as academies.

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.

School leaders see themselves rather like look - outs on the Titanic shouting out that there's a great big iceberg ahead - backed by the National Audit Office's finding that schools face 8 % real - term spending cuts, worth # 3bn, by 2020.