Source · National Audit Office

Lessons learned: Government compensation schemes

Published: 23 Jul 2024 Recommendations: 2 Type: Value for Money

NAO report detail with recommendations, government responses, and any Public Accounts Committee follow-up.

Recommendations

2 items
No response position recorded.

The indexed recommendations do not yet have a recorded response position. This is separate from evidence of implementation. This report was published 23 July 2024.

Recommendation 1

Addressee: Cabinet Office · Source location: Page 8, 12

The Cabinet Office sets up, by the end of 2024, a centre of expertise within government to provide guidance, expertise or a framework for public bodies seeking to set up a compensation scheme ? this should be resourced sufficiently to provide advice to existing and future schemes.

Response position: No response position recorded

Delivery: No implementation status recorded

Recommendation 2

Addressee: Cabinet Office · Source location: Page 8, 12

The Cabinet Office reviews alternative arrangements, including structural arrangements, that would allow compensation schemes to begin and operate in a more timely, efficient and effective manner while earning the confidence of potential claimants. This review should consider a new standing public body to act as a compensating authority to administer future time-limited compensation schemes, and set out the changes it plans to make as a result of the review.

Response position: No response position recorded

Delivery: No implementation status recorded