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Book Synopsis Holding Government to Account by : Henry C Midgley
Download or read book Holding Government to Account written by Henry C Midgley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-12-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Audit Office has played an important role in the checks and balances of the UK parliamentary and political system over the last 40 years. This new book, more than just a history of the UK’s supreme audit institution, examines the very definition of accountability through both an historic and an academic lens, critically exploring questions about the role of audit in a democracy and how well it is working. Holding Government to Account draws on several unique sources of evidence, including interviews with senior officials from the National Audit Office and the civil service, as well as senior parliamentarians with experience of the NAO’s relationships with government and legislature. These interviews are supplemented by an analysis of previously unpublished manuscript material in the National Archives, examination of NAO reports and parliamentary and other reports focused on accountability. The book begins with a history of the National Audit Office in the context of the UK’s wider history. It then offers an overview of the constitutional, political and human legacies of the Exchequer and Audit Department, followed by a close examination of the National Audit Office’s leadership and decision-making from inception in 1984 through to the present. The authors conclude with an exploration of the way in which the meaning of public sector audit has evolved over time, in accordance with its wider political, ideological and material context. In doing so, they demonstrate that any question about the National Audit Office’s future and organisation is really a question about what democracy and good government mean in a modern bureaucratic state. Holding Government to Account will be of keen interest to students enrolled in courses on accounting, public administration, law and politics as well as to politicians, civil servants and Supreme Audit Institutions internationally.
Book Synopsis Report on the NHS summarised accounts 2006-07 by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Report on the NHS summarised accounts 2006-07 written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last financial year the Department of Health made financial recovery priority and managed to turn the deficits of 2005-06 to a surplus of £505 million in 2006-07. The Comptroller and Auditor General is the statutory auditor of the financial accounts of the NHS and has the duty to certify and report to Parliament on them. This report is published alongside in the NHS Summarised Accounts to provide more detail on the financial performance of the NHS, how it moved into balance and the challenges that face it in the future.
Book Synopsis H.M. Treasury annual report and accounts 2006-2007 by : Great Britain: H.M. Treasury
Download or read book H.M. Treasury annual report and accounts 2006-2007 written by Great Britain: H.M. Treasury and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated June 2007. Supplied via TSO's On-Demand Publishing Service
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215038333 Total Pages :108 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (383 download)
Book Synopsis Ministry of Defence annual report and accounts 2006-07 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee
Download or read book Ministry of Defence annual report and accounts 2006-07 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyses the Annual Report and Accounts 2006-07 of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) (published as HC 697, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780102946369). The MoD's assessment of its expected achievements against its six Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets, which run until the end of March 2008, has deteriorated since the previous year's Annual Report and Accounts. At the end of 2007, the MoD did not expect to meet the target relating to generating forces and expects "only partly" to meet targets relating to recruitment and retention, and defence equipment procurement. The failure to meet the target for generating forces is a consequence of the continuing high levels of deployment of the Armed Forces. The Committee is concerned that the Armed Forces have been operating at or above the level of concurrent operations they are resourced and structured to deliver for seven of the last eight years, and for every year since 2002. Achieving manning balance in all three Service continues to be a challenge. Shortages remain within many specialist trades in all three Armed Services, but especially in the Army Medical Service. The report notes the failure to meet harmony guidelines in the Army and the Royal Air Force - another indicator of the pressure on the Armed Forces from the continuing high level of operations - and another target missed by all three services is for ethnic minority recruitment. The MoD continues to experience substantial forecast cost increases on equipment programmes, and the report notes delays in delivering equipment programmes to the planned in-service dates. The MoD faces difficult choices in the face of expected cuts in the defence programme and the management of a streamlining exercise to reduce civilian posts in the headquarters.
Book Synopsis Releasing resources to the frontline by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Releasing resources to the frontline written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-01-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arm's Length Bodies (ALBs) are stand-alone, national organisations that are sponsored by the Department of Health to deliver specialised services and functions. ALBs range in size, but normally have boards, employ staff and publish accounts, and receive substantial funding from the Department. This National Audit Office report examines the allocation of resources and potential efficiencies that such bodies require. There are four categories of ALB: (i) Regulation of the healthcare system, e.g. Healthcare Commission; (ii) Establishing of national standards for healthcare, e.g. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence; (iii) Safety and public welfare, e.g. Health Protection Agency; (iv) Provision of central services to the NHS, e.g. NHS Litigation Authority. In 2003-04, there were 38 ALBs, employing some 25,000 staff and receiving £1.2 billion grant-in-aid funding. The NAO has set out a number of recommendations, including: to deliver efficiencies in ALBs, targets should focus on value for money defined in terms of total resources; Departments must be clear about what targets mean in practice and that any decisions to merge or reconfigure such bodies should be based on an Impact Assessment, identifying the costs and benefits of the change; Departments intending to deliver efficiencies through their ALBs, should map out their ALB sector and understand the individual circumstances of the particular ALB; Departments should also establish baseline performance and financial metrics; sponsors or other parts of the Department should not commission new work from ALBs without prior discussion with the central ALB finance team; after the conclusion of the ALB Review in 2008-09, good practice governance arrangements should be maintained, with appropriate assessment of the purpose and value for money of any new ALBs established.
Book Synopsis Financial Management in the NHS by : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Download or read book Financial Management in the NHS written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Audit Office report (HCP 63-I, session 2008-09, ISBN 9780102954418), looks at the financial performance of, and financial management in, the NHS during 2007-08. It also explains some of the issues which are likely to provide financial challenges for the NHS in 2008-09 and beyond. Where the report refers to performance of the NHS it covers the performance of Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts and NHS Trusts, as reported in the NHS Summarised Accounts (ISBN 9780103288079). The report also contains an analysis of the financial performance of NHS foundation trusts.
Book Synopsis Progress in tackling benefit fraud by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Progress in tackling benefit fraud written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This NAO report is a follow up to one issued in the 2002-03 session (HC 393, ISBN 9780102920635), Tackling Benefit Fraud. The report sets out some key facts, including: that the total benefit expenditure is £120 billion; the total number of recipients is 18 million; the total estimated fraud is £0.8 billion. In the 2006-07 period, £154 million was spent on six strategies to reduce fraud, with a Departmental estimate of £106 million of benefit overpayments identified as a result of fraud investigation and compliance activity. Also in the 2006-07 period, the Department recovered £22 million of the total £339 million outstanding fraud debt. Although the NAO has identified that fraud has fallen from an estimated £2 billion in 2001-02 to an estimated £0.8 billion in 2006-07, official error has risen in the same period from £1 billion to £1.9 billion. Tackling fraud is a key priority for the Department for Work and Pensions, and the report examines the main anti-fraud initiatives, recognising that: tackling benefit is inherently difficult; that the UK has levels of social security fraud and error which are similar to those of comparable countries; that the Department has made good progress in tackling fraud, but will find it increasingly difficult to secure further year on year reductions. The NAO has also set out a number of recommendations, including: that the Department's management information on fraud could be improved, with greater communication between the various departmental directorates responsible for counter-fraud work; that a review of the cost effectiveness of the Customer Compliance approach (which deals with lower risk cases of fraud) should be done; that a record of the outcomes of prosecution activities should be taken by case type to provide better Departmental information; that the Department must review recovery of overpayments in fraud cases and consider setting appropriate targets for recovery from customers who have committed fraud.
Book Synopsis Financial management report by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Financial management report written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Justice has made progress in improving its financial management, but it falls short of best practice in the consistency of its financial management approach, its understanding of its costs and the integration of its financial management systems and processes. The Ministry has made an important step forward in establishing a Value for Money Improvement Committee. This will assist the Ministry in delivering its future efficiency programme; integrating its financial systems; improving its cost data; and enhancing its internal financial management reporting. However, the Ministry is yet to produce a clear action plan to deliver its financial management initiatives and needs to do so over the next four months to demonstrate its commitment to continuing to improve its financial management. The Ministry does not yet understand, in sufficient detail, the costs of its activities within its prisons, the probation service and the courts. Procurement systems have been overhauled but this still leaves the 40 per cent of the Ministry's cost base relating to staff time. To address this, the Ministry has introduced major programmes to understand the costs of its activities in the National Offender Management Service and HM Courts Service but they are not due to be completed until at least 2012. The National Audit Office also notes that the Ministry's Finance Directorate does not have sufficient visibility of the costs of its policy proposals, reducing the effectiveness of the Ministry's financial control of its forward policy agenda.
Author :Great Britain: Department for International Development Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780102945195 Total Pages :786 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (451 download)
Book Synopsis Department for International Development annual report 2007 by : Great Britain: Department for International Development
Download or read book Department for International Development annual report 2007 written by Great Britain: Department for International Development and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual report details the work and expenditure of the Department for International Development (DFID) during the period April 2006 to March 2007, working as part of the wider international effort to tackle world poverty and promote the sustainable development of low-income countries. The report includes chapters on: reducing poverty in Africa and Asia and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals; making the multilateral system and bilateral aid more effective; fragile states, conflicts and crises; environment, climate change and natural resources; and working with others on policies beyond aid. The assessment of progress is structured around the DFID Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets.
Book Synopsis Managing financial resources to deliver public services by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Managing financial resources to deliver public services written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the management of financial resources to deliver better public services effectively. Divided into four parts, with appendices, it looks at the following areas: Part 1: The importance of managing financial resources; Part 2: Developing the skills and awareness necessary for effective financial resource management; Part 3: Improving departments' use of techniques and practices for managing financial resources; Part 4: The impact of improved management and financial resources. Financial rsource management is relevant to every aspect of a Government department's business. By 2010-11, central government spending is forecast to grow to £678 billion, which represents £11,000 for every person in the UK. The NAO has set out a number of findings and recommendations, including: that the lack of financial skills and awareness amongst non-finance staff remains a significant barrier to improving the management of financial resources across government; that some departments lack a qualified Finance Director at Board level; that senior managers in many departments are not provided with incentives to promote sound management of financial resources; that Departments could do more to improve their forecasting capabilities; that some Departments are not sufficiently well placed to integrate financial and operational performance information; that many Departments do not always ensure the full assessment of the financial implications of policy proposals.
Book Synopsis Management of expenditure by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Management of expenditure written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding managers to account for the resources they have been allocated is key to improving financial management at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This need has been recognised by the Department and reflected in a programme to improve its financial management, but the Department's Management Board recognises that establishing a culture of tighter control over its expenditure will take time. This initiative must remain a top priority and managers throughout the organisation will need to produce more reliable estimates of costs to justify their bids for resources and track the cost effectiveness of work done. The budgets agreed by the Management Board at the outset of 2006-07 and 2007-08 exceeded the funds available. In early 2006-07, increased spending to remedy difficulties with the Single Payment Scheme led to a risk of overspending in that year and the Department instigated a review which identified savings of £170 million against its original budget of £3,854 million. During the early part of 2007-08 further commitments above the agreed budget allocations meant the Department was at risk of exceeding its spending limit by £140 million. In July 2007, the Management Board identified savings which partially balanced the budget and continues to work towards a balanced budget for the year end. Effective monitoring by the Management Board and greater integration between the systems for monitoring performance delivery and financial expenditure would help better management of budgets. The NAO recommends that the Management Board set budgets from 2008-09 onwards that balance with the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review and develops benchmarks to test the rigour of proposed budgets and to provide confirmation that these resource bids accord with the Department's strategic objectives.
Book Synopsis Global Competition by : David Gerber
Download or read book Global Competition written by David Gerber and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few years ago, and competition (or 'antitrust') law is a key component of the legal framework for global competition. These laws are intended to protect competition from distortion and restraint, and on the national level they reflect the relationships between markets, their participants, and those affected by them. The current legal framework for the global economy is provided, however, by national laws and institutions. This means that those few governments that have sufficient 'power' to apply their laws to conduct outside their own territory provide the norms of global competition. This has long meant that the US (and, more recently, the EU) structure global competition, but China and other countries are increasingly using their economic and political leverage to apply their own competition laws to global markets. The result is increasing uncertainty, costs, and conflicts that burden global economic development. This book examines competition law on the global level and reveals its often complex and little-understood dynamics. It focuses on the interactions between national and international legal regimes that are central to these dynamics and a key to understanding them. Part I examines the evolution of the current global system, the factors that have shaped it, how it operates today, and recent efforts to alter that system-e.g., by including competition law in the WTO. Part II focuses on national competition law systems, revealing how national laws and experiences shape global competition law dynamics and how global factors, in turn, shape national laws and experiences. It examines the central roles of US and European law and experience, and it also pays close attention to countries such as China that are playing increasingly important roles in the global competition law arena. Part III analyzes current strategies for improving the legal framework for global competition and identifies the factors that may contribute to a system that more effectively supports global economic and political development. This analysis also suggests a pathway for moving toward that goal.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215514110 Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (141 download)
Book Synopsis Operational costs in Afghanistan and Iraq by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee
Download or read book Operational costs in Afghanistan and Iraq written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operational costs in Afghanistan and Iraq : Spring supplementary estimate 2007-08, eighth report of session 2007-08, report, together with formal minutes and written Evidence
Book Synopsis Republic of Mozambique by : International Monetary
Download or read book Republic of Mozambique written by International Monetary and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report contributes to the Mozambican authorities on reviewing the implementation of the government’s public accounting reform agenda.
Book Synopsis Agile Project Management for Government by : Brian Wernham
Download or read book Agile Project Management for Government written by Brian Wernham and published by Maitland and Strong. This book was released on 2012 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have committed to introducing agile change management for faster results with cheaper implementation at lower risk. The first hands-on guide is designed to help public sector leaders reap the rewards of agile methods, based on the latest national and international research.
Book Synopsis Financial Management in the Home Office by : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Download or read book Financial Management in the Home Office written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Home Office has made substantial improvements in its financial management since 2006, when the Comptroller and Auditor General disclaimed an opinion on its 2004-05 Resource Accounts. Further sustained improvement will still be needed over the next few years, so that good financial management becomes "business as usual" across all of the Department's operations, which will help the Department maximise the value for money of its service delivery. The Department has increased the number of professionally qualified finance staff, particularly in senior finance roles, and has improved financial governance and leadership. Improvements are also evident in the Department's financial planning and decision making; budgeting; financial monitoring and forecasting; and financial reporting. The unqualified audit opinion on its 2007-08 Resource Accounts was an important symbol of the progress made. There are areas for further improvement. The strategic management of the Department's capital programme has not been responsive enough to avoid large underspends, which amounted to £725 million over the 5 years to 31 March 2008. The Treasury has capped access to these funds at £292 million and the Department will need to deliver on the plans it has in place to use them by 2010-11. The Department also needs to develop further its understanding of the cost of its activities and the relationship between resource consumption and service outcomes. The Department recognises these issues and has been undertaking work with the aim of improving capital programme management and the basis on which decisions are made for funding allocations.
Book Synopsis The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue 2007 by : U K Stationery Office
Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue 2007 written by U K Stationery Office and published by Stationery Office Annual Catal. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No public library discount on this title
