Source · Recommendations & oversight

National Audit Office

2,796 reports 2,007 recommendations 1,697 with PAC follow-up 59% implementation rate

NAO value-for-money reports examining the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of government spending. Recommendations are tracked against government responses and, where a PAC hearing followed, linked to the committee's own recommendations and Treasury Minute responses.

Recent reports

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15 Oct 2015 Cabinet Office Confirmed impacts: Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of grant spending

15 Oct 2015 Department for Education Confirmed impacts: Driving a customer service focus at the Education Funding Agency

14 Oct 2015 HM Revenue and Customs Confirmed impacts: Increasing the effectiveness of tax collection

14 Oct 2015 Department of Health and Social Care Confirmed impacts: Driving improvements in NHS stroke care

14 Oct 2015 Department for Work and Pensions Confirmed impacts: Learning from the experience of welfare reform

14 Oct 2015 Ministry of Justice Confirmed impacts: Shining a spotlight on contract management

14 Oct 2015 Department of Health and Social Care Confirmed impacts: Improving the procurement of consumables by NHS trusts

14 Oct 2015 Department for Transport Confirmed impacts: Helping government to learn from past rail infrastructure programmes

14 Oct 2015 Department of Health and Social Care Confirmed impacts: Drawing together information and insights across the adult care system

14 Oct 2015 Department for Culture, Media & Sport Confirmed impacts: Helping the Charity Commission to improve its effectiveness

14 Oct 2015 Department for Transport Confirmed impacts: Developing the capability needed to deliver the rail strategy

14 Oct 2015 Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy The economic regulation of the water sector

14 Oct 2015 Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Confirmed impacts: Using our expertise to help improve consumer protection across central and local government

7 Oct 2015 HM Treasury The art of spending public money wisely

17 Sep 2015 Department of Health and Social Care Investigation into the Cancer Drugs Fund

11 Sep 2015 Department of Health and Social Care Managing conflicts of interest in NHS clinical commissioning groups

10 Sep 2015 HM Treasury Financial institutions landscape

3 Aug 2015 Department of Health and Social Care Care Act first-phase reforms – local experience of implementation

22 Jul 2015 Department of Health and Social Care Care Quality Commission

21 Jul 2015 HM Treasury HM Treasury’s 2014-15 Annual Report and Accounts

21 Jul 2015 Cabinet Office Investigation into the matching of funds from the Grassroots Grants Programme with donations from The W O Street Charitable Foundation

20 Jul 2015 NAO Overseeing financial sustainability in the further education sector

20 Jul 2015 NAO Skills Funding Agency Accounts 2014-15

17 Jul 2015 Ministry of Defence Strategic financial management in the Ministry of Defence

17 Jul 2015 Department of Health and Social Care Care leavers’ transitions to adulthood

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Response breakdown across all NAO recommendations

2,007 recommendations tracked

Status	Recommendations	Share
Implemented	1,186	59%
Accepted	1,554	77%
Partially accepted	186	9%
Work in progress	479	24%
Rejected	39	2%
Confirmed by NAO follow-up	1,697	85%
Methodology: status determined from departmental responses, Treasury Minute responses, PAC follow-up hearings, and NAO own progress tracking.

Top recipients of NAO recommendations

Departments named in NAO reports · all years

Department of Health and Social Care — 125 reports HM Treasury — 94 reports Cabinet Office — 87 reports Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy — 81 reports Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government — 74 reports HM Revenue and Customs — 73 reports Department for Work and Pensions — 64 reports Ministry of Defence — 62 reports Department for Education — 62 reports Department for Transport — 59 reports Devolved administrations — 56 reports Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs — 54 reports Home Office — 52 reports Ministry of Justice — 38 reports Department for Culture, Media & Sport — 29 reports