Case studies by parent department

Find case studies listed by parent department on the following 2 pages.

Department

Case study

Parliament

Investigating potential conflicts of interest in procurement at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

Across government

Shining a spotlight on contract management (specifically relates to Home Office and MoJ)

Cabinet Office

Helping to ensure an effective strategic centre of government (also relates to HM Treasury)

Greater accountability around the use of public funds by local bodies (also relates to BIS and DCLG)

Helping to improve strategic management of debt owed to government (also relates to HM Treasury)

Improving data quality and records retention of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme

Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of grant spending

Improving Confiscation Orders (also relates to Ministry of Justice)

Helping the Charity Commission to improve its effectiveness

Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)

Using our expertise to help improve consumer protection across central and local government

Improving access to finance for Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Greater accountability around the use of public funds by local bodies (also relates to DCLG & Cabinet Office)

Achieving value for money for the sale of government shares

Providing clarity over the arrangements for oversight and funding of alternative higher education providers

Department for Communities & Local Government (DCLG)

Managing reductions in local authority government funding

Greater accountability around the use of public funds by local bodies (also relates to BIS & Cabinet Office)

Department for Education

Delivering better careers advice for young people

Driving a customer service focus at the Education Funding Agency

Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC)

Highlighting an accountability gap in the reporting of the Levy Control Framework

Securing better progress on nuclear decommissioning

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Helping Defra to manage its facilities contract better

Department for Transport

Helping government to learn from past rail infrastructure programmes

Developing the capability needed to deliver the rail strategy

Department for Work & Pensions (DWP)

Learning from the experience of welfare reform

Department of Health

Helping to improve accountability in the health system

Improving the procurement of consumables by NHS Trusts

Drawing together information and insights across the adult care system

Driving improvements in NHS stroke care

Helping the Department of Health to improve its accounting processes

Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)

Improving the British Council's financial management

Helping the Parliament of Morocco create a Committee for Public Accounts (also relates to International)

HM Revenue & Customs

Increasing the effectiveness of tax collection

Encouraging the effective management of tax reliefs (also relates to HM Treasury)

HM Treasury

Helping to improve strategic management of debt owed to government (also relates to Cabinet Office)

Encouraging the effective management of tax reliefs (also relates to HMRC)

Home Office

Shining a spotlight on contract management (also applies across government and Ministry of Justice)

Earlier certification of the Home Office resource accounts

Ministry of Justice

Shining a spotlight on contract management (also applies across government and to Home Office)

Improving Confiscation Orders (also applies to Cabinet Office)

International audit work

New UN resolution achieved with NAO support

Malaysian peer review highly praised

Helping the Parliament of Morocco create a Committee for Public Accounts (also relates to FCO)