DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS MANAGING THE WASTE PFI PROGRAMME 

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Managing The Waste PFI  Programme 

REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL | HC 66 Session 2008-2009 | 14 January 2009

The National Audit Office scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Tim Burr, is an Officer of the House of Commons. He is the head of the National Audit Office which employs some 850 staff. He and the National Audit Office are totally independent of Government. He certifies the accounts of all Government departments and a wide range of other public sector bodies; and he has statutory authority to report to Parliament on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which departments and other bodies have used their resources. Our work saves the taxpayer millions of pounds every year: at least £9 for every £1 spent running the Office.

This report has been prepared under Section 6 of the National Audit Act 1983 for presentation to the House of Commons in accordance with Section 9 of the Act.

Tim Burr
Comptroller and Auditor General
National Audit Office

23 December 2008

The National Audit Office study team consisted of:

Mark Wynniatt and Andy Nichols,
assisted by Jemma Dunne, Jonathan GreenfIeld
and Joseph Holden under the direction
of David Finlay

This report can be found on the National Audit 
Office web site at www.nao.org.uk

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