Sentences with phrase «spending watchdog»
Two councils made «unlawful» payments to their chief executives, the public spending watchdog says.
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The statement from parliament's spending watchdog comes on the same day as two other reports have also criticised universal credit.
As many as one in eight children stand to lose their entitlement to free school meals under new eligibility criteria introduced by the government, according to a leading spending watchdog.
The government may have wasted money on a funding boost aimed at helping local authorities improve their handling of planning applications, a public spending watchdog has said.
Future head of Conservatives» public spending watchdog says «efficiency savings» alone will not save frontline services
A new report from spending watchdog the National Audit Office has concluded that the long - term future of Britain's post offices is «uncertain».
A Whitehall boss has admitted that the government is «paying too much» to law firms just weeks after the government's spending watchdog criticised the level of Freshfields» fees on the # 757m sale of Eurostar.
«This is astonishing criticism from the government's own spending watchdog.
As well as giving Google and HMRC a chance to explain themselves, the session will also give Hillier the opportunity to show what she's made of after a relatively quiet start at the helm of parliament's powerful cross-party spending watchdog.
Phone conversation with Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, a government spending watchdog group
Eric Pickles has defended his decision to scrap the Audit Commission, telling the Commons the local government spending watchdog made «errors of judgement».
A report published by the local authority spending watchdog looks at how councils are using the estimated 130 ALEOs in Scotland
The government's new tax and spending watchdog needs urgent reform to establish its independence from George Osborne's Treasury, according to a report today by one of Britain's leading thinktanks.
Appearing before the parliamentary spending watchdog on Monday, HMRC officials were asked how they would monitor the movement of goods and services at 300 crossing points along the border.
Spending watchdog rejects transport secretary's claim that new trains made major rail investment scheme unnecessary
The government's spending watchdog cited the specific example of a # 20 million counter-narcotics programme in Iraq that was brought down by local officials grossly over-billing the project's number of work days.
New York's extensive system of Industrial Development Agencies and Local Development Corporations is rife with overlapping boundaries and a lack of transparency that is crying for an overhaul, according to a study to be released today by the Citizens Budget Commission spending watchdog group.
UK spending watchdog confirms mismanagement in outsourcing to G4S and Serco.
«Ministers are bracing themselves for a savaging by spending watchdogs over the «value for money» of the Government's controversial flagship High Speed rail project.
'' [Labour] believes it has a case to cut off the flow of Ashcroft's millions during the campaign because the peer is still subject to an inquiry by the official spending watchdog, the Electoral Commission.»
The NHS» spending watchdog says billions of pounds spent on tackling health inequalities are not having a big enough impact.
«This is astonishing criticism from the government's own spending watchdog,» shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said.
They are big shoes to step into, but who will replace Hodge at the helm of parliament's powerful cross-party spending watchdog?
The public spending watchdog report said that both authorities had acted unlawfully in allowing the chief executives to opt out of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to avoid potential tax payments.
The government spending watchdog has published a report looking at the progress of the academies programme, in the context of recent moves to increase the number of academies across England.
The Ministry of Defence's (MoD) failure to manage its purse - strings is an ongoing problem, the public spending watchdog has warned.
The future strategic tanker aircraft has seen a # 336 million increase in cost because of fuel price inflation, but a failure to take advantage of opportunities to cut the overall bill on the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier was criticised by the public spending watchdog.
The west coast mainline fiasco has cost the taxpayer a «significant» amount of cash, the government's public spending watchdog has found.
The Business Secretary has refused to apologise over the Government's handling of the privatisation of Royal Mail, after a critical report from the spending watchdog.
The spending watchdog has criticised the UK Government's use of contracts for difference to promote green energy
The Business Secretary has said he has no intention of apologising over the privatisation of Royal Mail despite a critical report from the spending watchdog.
Significant savings could be made in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) according to a spending watchdog.
Seven out of ten pensioners entitled to help with their housing costs but who are not claiming it are living in poverty, the spending watchdog warns.
Ministers appointed a head of the Student Loans Company, who was later sacked, despite concerns raised by civil servants during recruitment, Whitehall's spending watchdog has disclosed.
The government's flagship welfare reform has been badly managed, is «overambitious» and poor value for money, the spending watchdog has said.
Critics of the privatisation said the spending watchdog had offered «startling proof» that the Government sold off the country's family silver «on the cheap».
Parliament's spending watchdog has launched an inquiry into whether the National Lottery operator Camelot is failing the good causes it was set up to fund.
Schools across England are in crisis, parliament's spending watchdog has concluded, because of a failure to persuade disenchanted teachers to stay in the profession.
Preparations for EU exit curbed by «pervasive uncertainty» warns parliament's spending watchdog
Taxpayers will be forced to hand over nearly # 200bn to contractors under private finance deals for at least 25 years, according to a report by Whitehall's spending watchdog.
George Osborne lost taxpayers at least # 230 million on the part sell - off of Lloyd's bank, despite having claimed to have made a profit, the government's spending watchdog have found.
The government has made «significant progress» in its # 20 billion IT programme for the NHS, but its benefits must be better explained to staff, the public spending watchdog has warned.
The latest figures come after the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed in September that the number of people sleeping rough had soared by 134 per cent since the Conservative Party took power, prompting accusations from the spending watchdog that ministers have failed to tackle the problem.
The government's Train to Gain scheme has not delivered value - for - money, its spending watchdog has found.
Over 300,000 social housing properties are still not classed as «decent», according to a public spending watchdog.
The Home Office has no way of knowing whether its crackdown on modern slavery is a success, parliament's spending watchdog has found.
Too many cancer patients are still waiting weeks to be diagnosed, the Government's spending watchdog has warned.