National Audit Office. Cross-government
Author | : Great Britain. National Audit Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Civil service |
ISBN | : 9781786041029 |
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Author | : Great Britain. National Audit Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Civil service |
ISBN | : 9781786041029 |
Author | : Great Britain. National Audit Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781786043306 |
Author | : Great Britain. National Audit Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Civil service |
ISBN | : 9781786041388 |
Author | : Great Britain. Treasury |
Publisher | : Stationery Office Books (TSO) |
Total Pages | : 69 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : 9780115601262 |
Dated October 2007. The publication is effective from October 2007, when it replaces "Government accounting". Annexes to this document may be viewed at www.hm-treasury.gov.uk
Author | : Great Britain: National Audit Office |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2012-04-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780102975505 |
This National Audit Office report highlights progress across government in fulfilling most of its initial commitments to promote the transparency of public information. However, government needs a better understanding of costs, benefits and use to assess whether transparency is meeting its objectives of increasing accountability, supporting service improvement and stimulating economic growth. The Government has significantly increased the amount and type of public sector information released. Twenty-three out of 25 commitments by central government, due by December 2011, had been met by that month. However, the assessment of value for money is underdeveloped. While the Cabinet Office has identified six types of potential benefits from open data, it is not yet using this framework to evaluate the success and value for money of its various transparency initiatives. The new Open Data Institute will have a role to improve evidence on economic and public service benefits of open data. Levels of public interest in the different types of information released vary. More than four-fifths of visitors to the Government website data.gov.uk leave the site immediately without accessing any further link. In some sectors, data that would better inform accountability or choice is either not held or not yet made available. The Government estimates that public data already contributes £16 billion annually to the UK economy. Despite announced new transparency commitments to stimulate additional economic growth, the ability to maximise economic growth from traded data is constrained by current arrangements to charge for data, and limited understanding of potential benefits.
Author | : Great Britain: National Audit Office |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2012-10-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780102977295 |
The Government's ability to show that its spending decisions represent the best value for money is being hindered by the patchy availability of good information. Many aspects of government budgeting compare well with good budgeting practice - particularly in support of the Treasury's objective to control spending. The system is less effective at addressing objectives for prioritisation of public spending and delivery of value for money across government. In 2012-13, the Government expects to spend £683 billion. The Treasury designs and manages the Government's budgetary system; departments manage their spending within the rules Treasury sets. Its spending review 2010 (SR10) and subsequent annual budgets have focused on reducing spending to tackle the fiscal deficit. The NAO estimates that SR10 cost departments and the Treasury around £20 million to administer. There were improvements in the last spending review to how spending on capital projects was allocated. However, the approach to prioritising resource spending, which represents nearly 90 per cent of all controllable spending, was less structured. There are promising budgeting developments in some departments, including innovative methods of internal challenge, improved aspects of external challenge and strengthened links between performance and spending. The Treasury's main contact with departments is through spending teams which make valuable contributions to spending control. However, their ability to challenge proposals is hampered by limited information and high staff turnover - with only eight out of 52 staff members still in place 20 months after SR10.
Author | : Great Britain: National Audit Office |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2012-02-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780102975376 |
This report by the National Audit Office on progress by central government departments in reducing costs concludes that departments took effective action in 2010-11, cutting spending in real terms by 2.3 per cent or £7.9 billion, compared with 2009-10. The analysis of departments' accounts supports the Efficiency and Reform Group's estimate that Government spending moratoria and efficiency initiatives, including cuts to back-office and avoidable costs, contributed around half of the figure, some £3.75 billion. However, the report warns that departments are less well-placed to make the long-term changes needed to achieve the further 19 per cent over the four years to 2014-15, as required by the spending review. This is partly because of gaps in their understanding of costs and risks, making it more difficult to identify how to deliver activities and services at a permanently lower cost. Fundamental changes will be needed to achieve sustainable reductions on the scale required. It is unclear how far spending reductions represent year-on-year changes in efficiency, or whether front-line services are affected; and the departments' forward plans examined by the NAO are not based on a strategic view. Departments' financial data on basic spending patterns is sufficient to manage budgets in-year, but information about the consequences of changes in spending is less good. Longer term reform is a Cabinet Office priority and departments will need to look beyond short-term cost cutting measures and make major operational change. Cost reduction plans also need to build in contingency measures to cover unexpected risks.
Author | : American Bar Association. House of Delegates |
Publisher | : American Bar Association |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781590318737 |
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Author | : Great Britain: Cabinet Office |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2011-07-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780101814522 |
This White paper puts forward a comprehensive policy framework across public services. It sets out the principles for reforming public services and how they apply to existing policies. It also, crucially, outlines a range of wider ambitions for further consultation. The Government plans to follow five principles for modernising public services: wherever possible choice will be increased; public services should be decentralised to the lowest possible level; public services should be open to a range of providers; ensuring fair access to public services and that public services should be accountable to users and to taxpayers. In applying these principles it is recognised that different public services have different characteristics and the proposals are tailored accordingly. In essence, three different categories of public services are identified: individual services; neighbourhood services; and commissioned services. For individual services the aim is to put power in the hands of the people who use them; for neighbourhood services the aim is to put power in the hands of the elected councils; and for commissioned services, the intention is to open up and, where appropriate, decentralise commissioning to ensure greater quality and diversity.
Author | : Great Britain. National Audit Office |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780102954647 |
Much learning in government occurs after large projects, initiatives or crises. However, important learning should also take place routinely on a day-to-day basis, as teams and individuals carry out their work, or as a result of research and evaluations.