Corporate data issues
Corporate metrics failing to adequately measure programme progress, especially in the context of significant business and customer data risks.
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Rory Williams
The gastroenterology/endoscopy service suffers from critical staffing shortages, inadequate infrastructure, and excessively long waiting times. These systemic failures are not adequately reflected on the corporate risk register.
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#3 - 1st Report - An analysis of the asylum system
Poor data quality and weak management information continue to prevent effective management of the asylum system and undermine Parliament’s ability to assess performance. There is no single, reliable view of cases across the asylum system, with data spread across multiple systems, spreadsheets and local records. Basic information we would reasonably expect to see, such as the number of...
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#13 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
GDS and the Cabinet Office should publish quarterly reports on departmental and public sector body progress against the information and data security metrics it has committed to, together with its published principles for securing data in public services. These disclosures should be accessible via a single, publicly available tracker. (Recommendation, Paragraph 48) 51
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#3 - 3rd Report: Building more social housing
The Government must publish statistics on net additions of the different tenures of affordable housing per year, taking into account completions, sales, demolitions and conversions. These statistics are currently disparate or not collected. This is especially important to track changes in social rented stock which has been affected by significant number of conversions to affordable rent and Right...
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#17 - Sixteenth Report - Progress in remediating dangerous cladding
We asked the Department if it knew of any impact to social sector rents as a result of cladding replacement. It told us that it does not collect the information currently, but it has received information from social landlords, and is considering what further programme monitoring it can do.53 Insurance and lending
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#23 - Seventeenth Report - Immigration enforcement
The Department told us that it has high hopes for its modernisation and transformation projects. However, the NAO reported that the Department agrees funding for its transformation projects on an annual basis, and their longer-term development is therefore uncertain.64 We heard that e-visas and the introduction of its Atlas programme would provide a better grip on an individual’s...
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Government Shared Services
b) The Cabinet Office should put in place performance metrics that allow it to understand and measure how implementation of the strategy is proceeding, and progress in achieving data and process convergence
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Katherine Vanloo
There was a severe 7-month delay in pothole repair, exacerbated by the County Council's lack of a system to track works orders or audit completion and quality, leading to the wrong repair being performed.
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FR-1 - Single Core Data Set
The Inquiry recommends that the UK government and the Welsh Government improve data collected by children's social care and criminal justice agencies concerning child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation by the introduction of one single core data set covering both England and Wales. In order to facilitate this, these agencies should produce consistent and compatible data about...
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#8 - 2nd Report – Jagged Justice: Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation in Wales
We call on the Ministry of Justice to continue its engagement with the Wales Governance Centre and the Welsh Government regarding the publication of Wales-specific justice data. As part of this work, the Department should provide us with annual written updates—aligned with the date of the annual Welsh Justice Data releases—regarding its 66 progress in publishing the remaining...
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#7 - 2nd Report – Jagged Justice: Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation in Wales
We, like our predecessors, have long called for the publication of Wales- specific justice data and we welcome the Department’s decision to publish an annual Wales-specific justice data release, as well as its commitment to publish further datasets relating to homelessness and the Welsh language. Now that some disaggregated justice data is available, it is vital that it...
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#2 - 5th Report - MoD follow-up Spring 2026
It is completely unacceptable that the Department failed to maintain accounting records to support more than £6 billion of assets included in its 2024–25 Annual Report and Accounts. The Comptroller and Auditor General concluded that the Department’s 2024–25 accounts did not provide a true and fair representation of its financial position. This was because the Department had misclassified...
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#15 - 1st Report - An analysis of the asylum system
Departments rely on accurate and timely data to understand how people move through the asylum system, but significant gaps remain in the information held across different parts of the process. The NAO found that a reliable, single record is not yet available for each asylum seeker, and that data needed to track cases effectively is inconsistent or unavailable....
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#11 - 79th Report - Supporting people with frailty outside hospitals
NHSE also highlighted variation in terms of the range of community services across the country that are not specified or described clearly or consistently. It explained that these services are coded, measured and counted in different ways and often funded through block contracts. NHSE is seeking to standardise community services which it hopes will enable it to properly...
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#35 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
GDS should produce a strategy to end vendor lock-in across the public sector, which includes targets for the diversification of suppliers across government departments and public bodies, progress against which is published on a quarterly basis. (Recommendation, Paragraph 107)
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#14 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
In its response to this report, the government should set out how it intends to measure departmental and public body efforts to bring about difficult but necessary cultural changes in relation to data protection. It should name the departments and public bodies that have yet to adopt basic data hygiene practices, such as the use of Microsoft 365’s...
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#12 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
UK Biobank is in receipt of public funds, and so the government should help it to ensure that failings are addressed as a matter of urgency. This incident underlines that contractual arrangements to protect citizens’ data must also be accompanied by robust technical protections. (Conclusion, Paragraph 47)
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#3 - 1st Report - Promoting Wales for Inward Investment
The Wales Office should work in conjunction with the Department for Business and Trade and the Office for National Statistics to produce an annual Wales-specific report on inward investment results and trends for Wales. This should include the sectoral composition of inward investment in Wales and provide a comparison with other UK nations and regions which reflects on...
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#14 - Thirteenth Report: Whole of Government Response to COVID-19
Robust and timely data is also crucial to support decision making and efforts to coordinate support to those most in need, for example on the part of local authorities. The Ministry told us that the importance of data, and timely access to data, had come to the fore in the COVID-19 crisis. It gave examples of sharing data...
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#30 - Third Report - Delivering the Government’s infrastructure commitments through major projects
As responsibility for policy on major projects and their management is shared across two departments, the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury should write to the Committee setting out the standardised data they expect departments to collect on the most significant projects. From 2020–21, all departments should publish this information in their annual reports.
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#17 - Eighth Report: Economic impact of coronavirus: the challenges of recovery
We welcome initiatives by the ONS to improve the quality of its regional data, for instance by producing quarterly regional GDP figures. The Treasury publishing regional data in its March Budget is also a good first step towards increasing the profile of regional data. Such data will be vital in the wake of the crisis to assess the...
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#13 - Sixteenth Report - Progress in remediating dangerous cladding
The number of residents living in buildings with unsafe cladding is not clear. The Department estimates there are over 20,000 homes in around 240 high-rise buildings yet to be remediated with unsafe cladding similar to that used on the Grenfell Tower.42 However, this number does not cover all buildings with unsafe cladding. The Department estimates an additional 1,700...
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Recommendation - Avon and Somerset Police and Wiltshire Police, April 2026
The IOPC recommends that Wiltshire Police and Avon & Somerset Police create and maintain an up-to-date list of STORM Codes and Transfer Codes on their STORM systems to allow the effective use and transfer of incidents between the two forces. This follows an independent investigation into Wiltshire Police and Avon & Somerset Police’s handling and response to the...
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The National Space Strategy and the role of the UK Space Agency
By December 2024, UKSA should review and confirm whether it is using the most appropriate metrics, including the North Star metric, to measure its progress.
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Progress combatting fraud
Put in place the arrangements necessary to measure progress and to reprioritise and adapt its strategy, including by: ? producing an up-to-date measure of the cost of fraud to individuals and businesses, and updating this sufficiently frequently, to allow it to measure the impact of its actions; ? developing and publishing an evaluation strategy that covers all strands...
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F126 - Preserving corporate memory
The NHS Commissioning Board and local commissioners should develop and oversee a code of practice for managing organisational transitions, to ensure the information conveyed is both candid and comprehensive. This code should cover both transitions between commissioners, for example as new clinical commissioning groups are formed, and guidance for commissioners on what they should expect to see in...
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IOPC learning recommendation
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Operation Hotton recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, September 2021
The IOPC recommends that the MPS ensures there are metrics in place to measure and demonstrate, in a transparent way, improvements made in tackling bullying and harassment and confidence in the MPS approach to this. This could include reporting on the outcomes of allegations by protected characteristics. Consideration could also be given to the involvement of staff associations...
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FR-17 - Code of Practice on Records Access
The Inquiry recommends that the UK government directs the Information Commissioner's Office to introduce a code of practice on retention of and access to records known to relate to child sexual abuse. The retention period for records known to relate to allegations or cases of child sexual abuse should be 75 years with appropriate review periods. The code...
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1 - Collect disaggregated CSE data
Police forces and local authorities in England and in Wales must collect data on all cases of known or suspected child sexual exploitation and child sexual exploitation by networks. These data should be separated from other data sets, including data on child sexual abuse, and be disaggregated by the sex, ethnicity and disability of both the victim and...
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#14 - 2nd Report - Accountability for Daesh crimes
The Government must publish updated data on the number of Britons estimated to be detained in NES, with information disaggregated by age and sex if available. If this data is not available or cannot be made public, the Government must explain the reasons for this. (Recommendation, Paragraph 95)
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#13 - 2nd Report - Accountability for Daesh crimes
There is no official public data from the Government on the number of British individuals currently detained in camps and prisons in North East Syria (NES). (Conclusion, Paragraph 95)
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#42 - 2nd Report – Jagged Justice: Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation in Wales
We call on HMI Prisons to work with the Welsh Language Commissioner to design an additional survey for Welsh-speaking prisoners, with questions specifically designed to gather information about the quality and availability of Welsh language services in Welsh prisons. The information gathered through this survey should inform a dedicated section—designed to be uniform and consistent, to allow for...
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#26 - 2nd Report – Jagged Justice: Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation in Wales
We call on the Ministry of Justice to immediately reverse its real-term cuts to the prison education budget in England and to ensure that future funding grows in line with inflation and is aligned with the true costs of delivery. The Department should also work with the Welsh Government to come to an agreement about the publication of...
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#20 - 1st Report - An analysis of the asylum system
Planning across the asylum system has had to respond to shifting pressures at different stages of the process, and departments’ ability to model demand and plan ahead has been limited by the absence of shared data and a single, end-to-end view of system performance.47 Capacity constraints in casework, appeals, legal aid and accommodation have historically led to delays...
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#19 - 1st Report - An analysis of the asylum system
We also raised concerns about limitations in data used to monitor people who are no longer in active contact with the Home Office after exhausting their appeal rights. The Home Office told us that it knows “where some of them are”, but explained that individuals who are “elsewhere in the country” and not in contact with the Department...
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#17 - 1st Report - An analysis of the asylum system
Officials from both departments described ongoing challenges joining up information across systems. The MoJ explained that achieving fuller interoperability “needs money and a focused effort,” and that enabling systems to “talk to each other and share data” is difficult given the different digital systems in use.35 The Home Office said it intends to address some of these challenges...
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#16 - 1st Report - An analysis of the asylum system
We raised concerns that departments were often unable to respond to parliamentary questions because they did not hold information at the level of granularity requested.32 The NAO identified several examples where data was not routinely collected or available, including the number of people who had absconded from the asylum system and the level of repeated appeals.33 When asked...
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#45 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
The government should use its promised update to the Procurement Act 2023 to require public sector bodies to prioritise open-source tools and technology over proprietary offerings, to support innovative alternatives to incumbent suppliers and reduce the risk of vendor lock-in. (Recommendation, Paragraph 126)
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#43 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
The UK’s reliance on a small number of US-based providers for digital infrastructure and public service delivery is a strategic and economic vulnerability. The government’s digital transformation ambitions could be derailed at any time by a decision taken outside our shores based on the narrow interests of a foreign commercial or state actor. (Conclusion, Paragraph 121) 56
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#40 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
Sovereignty means different things to different people, including within government. Ultimately it comes down to choice, and having the ability to make choices rather than being dependent on individual providers is particularly important when it comes to technology. Leverage as the Secretary of State described it should be pursued, but can be constrained by the actions of unreliable...
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#39 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
In its response to this report the government should detail how the ‘All of Government’ cloud contract will prevent vendor lock-in. It should set out the engagement it has had with the Competition and Markets Authority on the development of the contract, and how the contract will embed a pro-competition approach to cloud procurement. (Recommendation, Paragraph 111) Barrier...
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#36 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
The public sector’s dependence on AWS and Microsoft’s cloud products undermines fair competition, fails to deliver value for money, can prevent domestic alternatives from scaling and—when outages occur—exposes a lack of resilience. The government is rightly seeking to coordinate cloud contracting, but this should be done in such a way as to ensure more, not less, competition. (Conclusion,...
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#34 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
We believe that vendor lock-in should not be viewed as inevitable, and that dependence on a small number of suppliers does not automatically lead to better delivery of public services or better use of public money. (Conclusion, Paragraph 106)
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#29 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
The government should commit to exercising the February 2027 break clause in the Federated Data Platform contract and either develop an in-house replacement or seek an alternative developed by UK-owned and UK-based providers that are more compatible with UK values, and do not pursue either technical or contractual dependencies. It should publish a fully costed exit plan for...
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#28 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
Our view that Palantir’s increasing presence across the public sector represents an unacceptable point of weakness is not ideologically motivated or driven by concerns about the quality of their products. The government should retain the ability to pick and choose individual suppliers and safeguard against the risk of vendor lock-in and debilitating dependencies, particularly in areas of critical...
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#15 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
The findings of the internal review examining events at the UK Biobank should be published in full. In its response to this report the government and UKRI should set out the technical protections that will be put in place at the UK Biobank to ensure it properly protects citizens’ data. They should also set out their view on...
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#11 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
The advertisement of UK Biobank datasets on a Chinese e-commerce platform points to a particularly egregious example of inadequate data hygiene. The seriousness of the breach was compounded by a response that showed a lack of appreciation of the trust placed by 500,000 volunteers in the Biobank, a valuable study that depends on public confidence and trust in...
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#1 - 1st Report - Rewiring the state: Delivering digital government
Inadequate data on digital spend prevents the government from making informed decisions regarding policy interventions, and prevents those responsible from being properly held to account. (Conclusion, Paragraph 15)
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#2 - 1st Report - Promoting Wales for Inward Investment
Data must be accurate, accessible and comparable to enable governments, policymakers and investment stakeholders to make the best decisions about promoting Wales for inward investment. Neither the UK nor Welsh governments are currently providing comprehensive analysis of Wales’ inward investment results. (Conclusion, Paragraph 42)
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#20 - Twelfth Report: Management of tax reliefs
When we examined tax reliefs in 2014 we found that HMRC published estimates of only 46 reliefs which had economic and social objectives.35 Since then HMRC has responded to our recommendations that it be more transparent. In October 2019, it published for the first time a list of all 362 tax reliefs with economic and social objectives.36 It...
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