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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16 Oct 2015 NAO Confirmed impacts: New UN resolution achieved with NAO support

16 Oct 2015 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Confirmed impacts: Improving the British Council’s financial management

16 Oct 2015 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Confirmed impacts: Helping the Parliament of Morocco create a Committee for Public Accounts

16 Oct 2015 Department of Health and Social Care Confirmed impacts: Helping the Department of Health to improve its accounting processes

15 Oct 2015 Cabinet Office Confirmed impacts: Investigating potential conflicts of interest in procurement

15 Oct 2015 NAO Confirmed impacts: Earlier certification of the Home Office resource accounts

15 Oct 2015 Cabinet Office Confirmed impacts: Helping to ensure an effective strategic centre of government

15 Oct 2015 HM Revenue and Customs Confirmed impacts: Encouraging the effective management of tax reliefs

15 Oct 2015 Cabinet Office Confirmed impacts: Greater accountability around the use of public funds by local bodies

15 Oct 2015 Department for Work and Pensions Confirmed impacts: Improving data quality and records retention of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme

15 Oct 2015 Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Confirmed impacts: Highlighting an accountability gap in the reporting of the Levy Control Framework

15 Oct 2015 Department for Education Confirmed impacts: Providing clarity over the arrangements for oversight and funding of alternative higher education providers

15 Oct 2015 Department for Education Confirmed impacts: Delivering better careers advice for young people

15 Oct 2015 Department of Health and Social Care Confirmed impacts: Helping to improve accountability in the health system

15 Oct 2015 Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Confirmed impacts: Securing better progress on nuclear decommissioning

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

15 Oct 2015 Cabinet Office Confirmed impacts: Helping to improve strategic management of debt owed to government

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

15 Oct 2015 Ministry of Justice Confirmed impacts: Improving Confiscation Orders

15 Oct 2015 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Confirmed impacts: Managing reductions in local authority government funding

15 Oct 2015 Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Confirmed impacts: Improving access to finance for SMEs

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

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

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

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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