Source · Recommendations & oversight

National Audit Office

2,815 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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6 Mar 2026 Cabinet Office Update on government shared services — 2 recommendations

27 Feb 2026 HM Revenue and Customs Taxing large businesses — 6 recommendations

11 Feb 2026 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Unlocking land for housing — 6 recommendations

6 Feb 2026 Department for Work and Pensions The Access to Work scheme

4 Feb 2026 Department of Health and Social Care The costs of tackling drug harms in prisons — 10 recommendations

30 Jan 2026 Ministry of Defence MoD’s management of losses from fraud and other economic crime

30 Jan 2026 NAO The Ministry of Defence's management of its losses from fraud and other economic crime — 7 recommendations

23 Jan 2026 Devolved administrations Administration of Welsh rates of income tax 2024-25

21 Jan 2026 Department for Business & Trade Regulating for growth — 4 recommendations

16 Jan 2026 Department of Health and Social Care Update on the New Hospital Programme — 5 recommendations

16 Jan 2026 Devolved administrations Administration of Scottish income tax 2024-25

9 Jan 2026 Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Environmental regulation — 9 recommendations

17 Dec 2025 Department for Transport Investigation into car driving test waiting times — 4 recommendations

12 Dec 2025 NAO Bank of England’s Real-Time Gross Settlement System Renewal Programme — 4 recommendations

10 Dec 2025 Cross-government An analysis of the asylum system — 15 recommendations

5 Dec 2025 Department of Health and Social Care Primary and community healthcare support for people living with frailty — 7 recommendations

28 Nov 2025 Cross-government Implementation of climate-related reporting in central government annual reports — 3 recommendations

19 Nov 2025 Unknown (358) The BBC World Service’s savings programme — 4 recommendations

14 Nov 2025 HM Treasury National Savings & Investments’ Business Transformation Programme — 10 recommendations

3 Nov 2025 Home Office Police productivity — 13 recommendations

31 Oct 2025 Department for Education Home to school transport — 5 recommendations

29 Oct 2025 Department of Health and Social Care The financial sustainability of England’s adult hospice sector

24 Oct 2025 Ministry of Justice Building an effective and resilient Probation Service — 15 recommendations

22 Oct 2025 Department for Work and Pensions Tackling benefit overpayments due to fraud and error — 6 recommendations

17 Oct 2025 Department of Health and Social Care Costs of clinical negligence — 5 recommendations

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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 — 95 reports Cabinet Office — 87 reports Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy — 81 reports Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government — 76 reports HM Revenue and Customs — 74 reports Department for Work and Pensions — 66 reports Ministry of Defence — 63 reports Department for Education — 63 reports Department for Transport — 62 reports Devolved administrations — 56 reports Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs — 55 reports Home Office — 53 reports Ministry of Justice — 39 reports Department for Culture, Media & Sport — 30 reports