National Audit Office Articles

It is perhaps no surprise given the number of alternative political stories on offer as parliament returned from the conference recess this week that another failure in the government’s universal credit rollout passed almost unnoticed. The scheme has been beset by...

As a member of the Public Accounts Committee, every week I hear tales of government financial waste that would boil the blood of the most frivolous of spendthrifts. In recent months, we have seen an extra £1bn diverted into the expansion of academies programme at the...

It felt a long way from the Downing Street rose garden to the train depot in Smethwick where David Cameron and Nick Clegg attempted another relaunch yesterday. It was telling that the only common ground this warring couple can find these days is the need for...

As we get closer to June, excitement is building in the global environment community about the UN Sustainable Development conference in Rio. And that is precisely the problem! As long as Rio+20 remains the hot topic for eco-lobbyists, it will remain profoundly worthy;...