Independent review of reported CSR07 value for money savings

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ISBN 13 : 9780102965414
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Independent review of reported CSR07 value for money savings written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Autumn 2009, HMRC reported it had achieved savings of some £300 million. The NAO examined reported savings in staffing, estates, IT and procurement which totalled £288 million a year, some 90 per cent of the reported total savings. The NAO rated 42 per cent (£121 million) as sustainable savings (green), 45 per cent (£129 million) as savings but with some uncertainty (amber) and 13 per cent (£38 million) as overstated (red). This report accompanies the broader NAO progress report on VFM savings (HC 291, 9780102965391)

Independent Reviews of Reported CSR07 Value for Money Savings

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ISBN 13 : 9780102963366
Total Pages : 56 pages
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Book Synopsis Independent Reviews of Reported CSR07 Value for Money Savings by : Great Britain. National Audit Office

Download or read book Independent Reviews of Reported CSR07 Value for Money Savings written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report contains two independent reviews that are part of a series of reports the NAO will be producing into savings reported by departments as part of the targets set by the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review. The Department for Transport reported savings of £892 million, of which the NAO found that 43 per cent fairly represent realised cash savings, 22 per cent may represent realised cash savings but with some uncertainty, and 35 per cent may be overstated. At the Home Office, the NAO sampled £338 million of £544 million reported savings and found 59 per cent of these fairly represent realised cash savings, 24 per cent may represent realised cash savings but with some uncertainty, and the NAO has significant concerns over 17 per cent. Overall, the Government has set a target to generate annually cash-releasing savings of £35 billion by 2010-11. The savings programme is based on the principle that the planned savings have already been removed from departments' budgets. Departments therefore have to deliver savings to release enough cash to meet their spending plans or reduce activity compared with the planned level. The NAO is satisfied that, in many cases, both departments are achieving long term savings. The main reasons for the NAO's concerns are: Eighty per cent of the Department for Transport's reported savings relate to support for the rail industry. The NAO considers the benchmarks against which these savings were measured should have been revised in the light of the most recent information, which would reduce the savings reported in 2008-09. The main reasons for the NAO's concerns with around 17 per cent of savings reported by the Home Office were that reported gains were one-off cash savings which will not permanently reduce the Department's expenditure, or were not new annual savings as the procurement actions had been taken in prior years.

Progress with VFM savings and lessons for cost reduction programmes

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ISBN 13 : 9780102965391
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Progress with VFM savings and lessons for cost reduction programmes written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses how much the Treasury's Value for Money savings programme has improved value for money across government. The programme aims to achieve government-wide annual savings of £35 billion from 2008-09 to 2010-11. Today's report concludes that the Treasury's design addressed some weaknesses in earlier savings programmes, and departments have made some progress in their management of their programmes compared with previous spending periods. Nevertheless, departments' planned programmes did not contain sufficient contingency and it is unlikely that departments will achieve the government-wide target of £35 billion of annual savings, which fully meet the Comprehensive Spending Review criteria, in 2010-11. To date the NAO has reviewed reported savings amounting to some £2.8 billion from five major departments which are to deliver around 40 per cent of the government-wide total. The NAO has concluded that 38 per cent fairly represented sustainable savings (green); 44 per cent may represent savings but with some uncertainty (amber); and 18 per cent do not represent, or significantly overstate, savings (red). Common problems include the use of unsuitable baselines for the calculation of savings, a lack of transparency over arms-length bodies' reporting processes, and difficulties in demonstrating links between savings and performance. This report is accompanied by the NAO's reviews of the value for money savings reported by the Ministry of Defence (HC 292, ISBN 9780102965407); HM Revenue Customs (HC 293, ISBN 9780102965414); and the Department for Education (HC 294, ISBN 9780102965421)

Nine Reports from the Comptroller and Auditor General Published from July 2009 to March 2010

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ISBN 13 : 9780215553737
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Download or read book Nine Reports from the Comptroller and Auditor General Published from July 2009 to March 2010 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the following nine reports by the Comptroller and Auditor General: HC 878, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780102955088); HC 546, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780102963250); HC 465, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780102963205); HC 1028, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780102963274); HC 962, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780102963281); HC 86, session 2009-10 (ISBN 9780102963366); HC 293, session 2009-10 (ISBN 9780102963465); HC 216 (9780102963519); HC 452, session 2009-10 (ISBN 9780102963618)

Improving Government Procurement

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ISBN 13 : 9780102981315
Total Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book Improving Government Procurement written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2010, the government has made a number of changes to its procurement structures and processes. There have been signs of good progress in key areas: expenditure on common goods and services is more centralised; participation by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has increased; and the Government Procurement Service is an improvement on its predecessor. The creation of a Chief Procurement Officer and associated positions has formed clearer lines of responsibility at the centre, and the Cabinet Office now has a firmer grip of procurement expenditure. Overall, the NAO expresses confidence in the Service's reported savings of £426 million in 2011-12 as a result of reductions in price owing to centralised procurement. Nevertheless, there have been problems in implementing the reforms, including ineffective governance structures, unrealistic targets, incomplete data and weaknesses in contract management. Government is not maximising the potential for savings through centralised procurement. There are some operational issues with GPS's management of the central contracts, with departments raising concerns about the inconsistency of contract management and the quality of customer service. And some weaknesses in implementation mean that the centralised approach is not releasing procurement resources in departments as originally expected. Roles and responsibilities for day-to-day contract management are unclear and there are inadequate mechanisms by which departments and the centre of government can hold each other to account. The Cabinet Office will have to lead a major cultural shift across government if the centralising of buying goods and services is to deliver the significant benefits on offer.

Progress in Making NHS Efficiency Savings

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ISBN 13 : 9780102980547
Total Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book Progress in Making NHS Efficiency Savings written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Health has reported that the NHS achieved £5.8 billion of savings in 2011-12, virtually all of the forecast total of £5.9 billion. Most of the savings were generated through the pay freeze for public sector staff, and reductions in the prices primary care trusts pay for healthcare. NHS bodies also made savings by cutting back-office costs. However, there is limited assurance that all the reported savings were achieved. The NAO substantiated a total of £3.4 billion of NHS efficiency savings. Although the savings made by NHS providers as a percentage of operating costs are increasing, it is not clear what level of savings is sustainable over time. Changes to transform services take time to implement and the Department has always expected that these savings will predominantly come in the latter half of the four-year period. The NHS is seeking to maintain the quality of, and access to, healthcare at the same time as making efficiency savings. In 2011-12, the NHS performed well against headline indicators of quality, including waiting times and healthcare associated infection rates. The indicators focus mainly on hospital care and the Department faces a significant challenge in monitoring quality across the NHS as a whole. The Department does not know whether the demand for healthcare is being managed in ways that inappropriately restrict patients' access to care. Reducing demand and redesigning care pathways to treat patients in the most appropriate setting are key ways of generating savings

Progress on Reducing Costs

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ISBN 13 : 9780102981278
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Progress on Reducing Costs written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In challenging circumstances in 2011-12, HM Revenue and Customs maintained its performance in key strategic areas at the same time as reducing its staff and spending. The challenge for HMRC will be to make more and deeper reductions over the spending review period while increasing tax revenues, improving customer service and introducing its 'real time information' project and changes to benefits and credits. HMRC made £296 million of savings in 2011-12, exceeding its target by 19 per cent. This is about a third of the total savings it is required to make over the four years of the spending review period. However, HMRC expects these projects to save £162 million less over the spending review period than when the NAO last reported on this subject, in July 2011. This is partly because its forecasts are now more refined and realistic, and partly because, as some projects took longer to start, the benefits will take longer to be realised. HMRC has strengthened how it manages its change programme in ways that address NAO and Public Accounts Committee recommendations. The Department has also started to address the recommendations that it should improve its understanding of interdependencies between projects and of the cost and value of its activities though it has more to do in these areas. At September 2012, HMRC was on track to exceed its 2012-13 cost reduction target by £29 million. However, the reduction in planned savings being delivered by change projects means that HMRC needs to find £66 million more savings than it originally planned through other initiatives

Reducing costs in HM Revenue & Customs

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ISBN 13 : 9780102969900
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Reducing costs in HM Revenue & Customs written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HM Revenue & Customs faces a significant challenge in securing a £1.6 billion reduction in running costs over the next four years, at the same time as increasing tax revenues, improving customer service and achieving reductions in welfare payments. HMRC has reported savings of some £1.4 billion since 2005. To achieve its cost reductions it plans to implement 24 change projects and other measures including savings in the provision of IT services, improvements in productivity, reduced sickness absence and headcount reductions. The size and shape of HMRC will change substantially as it reduces staff numbers by 10,000 and significantly reduces the number of offices it operates. HMRC has established a clear vision and specified operational priorities and revenue targets. It has not yet sufficiently defined the business performance and customer service it intends to achieve by 2015. It has good information on the different costs it incurs but only limited information on the cost of its end-to-end processes and on the cost of servicing different customers groups. It also has a limited understanding of the link between the cost and value of its activities. This has restricted its ability to assess fully the impact of cost reductions on business performance. HMRC has made no allowance in its cost reduction plans for under-delivery or slippage, and currently has no reserve of proposals on which to draw. HMRC has begun to implement its cost reduction plans but has not yet assessed all the dependencies between projects and the critical path for delivery.

The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue

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Total Pages : 556 pages
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Investing in Britain's potential

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ISBN 13 : 9780101698429
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book Investing in Britain's potential written by Great Britain. Treasury and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-12-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2006 Pre-Budget Report presents updated assessments and forecasts of the economy and public finances; the effects of policies on long-term governmental goals; and reforms being considered ahead of the Budget. It is organised under 6 main headings: maintaining macroeconomic stability; meeting the productivity challenge; increasing employment opportunity for all; building a fairer society; delivering high quality public services; protecting the environment. Amongst the measures discussed are: making Child Benefit available from week 29 of pregnancy; increasing enforcement measures for the National Minimum Wage; a target of 3% savings in central and local government; increasing capital investment in education from £8.3 billion in 2007-8 to £10.2 billion in 2010-11; taking forward recommendations of the Leitch Review on skills (ISBN 0118404865); and an increase in air passenger duty.

Department for International Development annual report 2007

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ISBN 13 : 9780215037312
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Book Synopsis Department for International Development annual report 2007 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee

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Taxes

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Meeting the aspirations of the British people

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ISBN 13 : 9780101722728
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Meeting the aspirations of the British people written by Great Britain. Treasury and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government's objective is to build a strong economy and a fair society, in which there is opportunity and security for all. The 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review, 'Meeting the aspirations of the British People' (Cm 7227), presents updated assessments and forecasts of the economy and public finances, describes reforms that the Government is making and sets out the Government's priorities and spending plans for the years 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11, including: maintaining macroeconomic stability; investing in the future with total public spending rising from £589bn in 2007-08 to £678bn in 2010-11 including an additional £2bn for capital investment in public services; continuing the sustained investment in the NHS, with resources rising from £90bn in 2007-08 to £110bn by 2010-11 and with value for money savings of at least £8.2bn contributing to the funding of the conclusions of the Darzi Review 'Our NHS, our future'; further sustained increases in resources for education, science, transport, housing, child poverty, security and international poverty reduction and the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; simplifying the tax system to make it fairer, simpler and more efficient; modernising the tax system through major reforms to inheritance tax and capital gains tax; steps to protect the environment, including reforms of the tax regime for aviation and a new Environmental Taxation Fund to support the demonstration and deployment of new energy and efficiency technologies. For related publications, see 9780102944556 (2007 Budget Statement), 9780101698429 (2006 Pre-Budget), and for the Darzi Review see (http://www.ournhs.nhs.uk/files/283411_OurNHS_v3acc.pdf)

Communities and Local Government's departmental annual report 2009, and the performance of the Department in 2008-09

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ISBN 13 : 9780215544360
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Communities and Local Government's departmental annual report 2009, and the performance of the Department in 2008-09 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HC 1038-i-ii, session 2008-09. The DCLG departmental annual report 2009 was published as Cm. 7598 (ISBN 9780101759823)

Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).

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Total Pages : 912 pages
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Independent review of reported CSR07 value for money savings

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ISBN 13 : 9780102965421
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book Independent review of reported CSR07 value for money savings written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Autumn 2009, the Department for Education (formerly the Department for Children, Schools and Families) reported it had achieved savings of some £1.017 billion between 2007 and 2009. The NAO examined reported savings, mainly in the schools sector, which totalled £591 million, some 58 per cent of the reported total savings. The NAO rated 9 per cent (£55 million) as sustainable (green), 89 per cent (£523 million) as savings but with some uncertainty (amber) and 2 per cent (£13 million) as overstated (red). This report accompanies the broader NAO progress report on VFM savings (HC 291, 9780102965391)

Pre-budget Report 2008

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ISBN 13 : 9780101748421
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Pre-budget Report 2008 written by Great Britain. Treasury and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2008 Pre-Budget Report presents updated assessments and forecasts of the economy and public finances, and reports on how in the face of major global economic shocks the Government intends to support the economy, businesses and households through these uncertain times while delivering its long-term goals. Measures announced include: temporarily reducing the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate to 15 per cent from1 December 2008 to 31 December 2009; bringing forward £3 billion of capital spending from 2010-11 including introducing a green stimulus supporting low carbon growth and jobs; introducing a new additional higher rate of income tax of 45 per cent for those with incomes above £150,000 from April 2011; increasing national insurance contributions by 0.5 per cent from April 2011; increasing alcohol and tobacco duties; a two pence per litre increase in fuel duty from 1 December). Immediate action to help those individuals and businesses most affected by the economic downturn include: increases in the income tax personal allowance; bringing forward the increase in Child Benefit; increases of the Child Tax Credit and a payment of £60 to all pensioners; help through mortgage rescue and Support for Mortgage Interest schemes for eligible homeowners in difficulty and a commitment from major mortgage lenders not to initiate repossession action within at least three months of an owner-occupier going into arrears; an additional £1.3 billion to support for the unemployed to find a new job; measures to help small and medium-sized enterprises facing credit constraints; a new HMRC Business Payment Support Service to allow businesses in temporary financial difficulty to pay their HMRC tax bills on a timetable they can afford; and more generous tax relief for businesses now making losses and the modification of a number of planned tax reforms, including vehicle excise duty, air passenger duty, and the deferral of the increase in the small companies' rate of corporation tax.