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NAO: How To Get Government IT Right
News In the report, released last Friday, the National Audit Office (NAO) laid out nine questions which local government organisations should answer before proceeding with a new technology project. There are three "threads" of success, according to the...
[November 20, 2006, 8:48]
NAO Report To Critise NHS Plans
News A long-awaited report on the NHS by the National Audit Office (NAO) is expected to criticise the Government's plans for the modernisation of the health service and the progress made so far in implementing the £6.2bn NHS IT programme.
[March 23, 2006, 12:50]
Utility Watchdogs Slate NAO Report
News A spokesman for NAO claimed regulators need to do more to publicise where key services -- such as electricity, gas and water -- are in preparedness for Y2K. The report, published this earlier this week, raised concerns about lack of communication...
[February 18, 1999, 16:06]
A Year Ago: Utility Watchdogs Slate NAO Report
News Utility regulators today hit back at a National Audit Office (NAO) report which accused them of being vague about millennium bug fix work and of poor contingency planning. A spokesman for NAO claimed regulators need to do more to publicise where...
[February 18, 2000, 6:23]
News Schmooze: Thumbs Up To 3G Auctions, Says NAO
News The National Audit Office might be delving into the realms of fantasy with its report on the 3G spectrum auctions, but in other respects it has reached an entirely new, and not entirely welcome, high-water mark for realism -- just look at the...
[October 19, 2001, 17:34]
Government Consultancy Spend Criticised
News The National Audit Office (NAO) has criticised the UK government's approach to employing consultancies to assist with work such as IT projects. The NAO, which scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament, slammed the government in a report...
[December 18, 2006, 13:13]
BBC Slipped Up Over Outsourcing Savings
News The National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that the BBC miscalculated the savings it would make through its outsourcing deal with Siemens Business Services (SBS). BBC Management accepts the savings figure should have been updated, and regrets...
[July 12, 2006, 12:25]
Spending Watchdog Attacks Government's Record On IT
News The National Audit Office (NAO) has cast doubt on the Government's claim that it can realise significant public sector savings by investing in new IT systems. But an NAO report released on Friday has questioned whether the Government's poor track...
[February 17, 2006, 13:55]
Third Of Government Data Systems Not Up To Scratch
News A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the quality of government data systems said that, although the systems were broadly appropriate, 35 percent need strengthening to be resilient enough for purpose.
[December 20, 2007, 16:37]
NHS IT Project Is Doing OK, Says Audit Office
News After months of speculation, the NHS and the director general of NHS IT, Richard Granger, have escaped censure from the National Audit Office (NAO) which published its report on the NHS National Programme for IT on Friday.
[June 16, 2006, 12:30]
UK Farmers Still Suffering From Government IT Woes
News A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found that the agency has yet to deal with all those farmers who were paid too little in 2005 — the first year of the scheme — and has not recovered excess sums from those claimants who were paid too...
[December 13, 2007, 10:26]
IT Fault Causes Millions To Pay Incorrect Tax
News The report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that up to £880m in pay as you earn (Paye) taxes had not been collected each year, while other taxpayers had overpaid by up to £340m. He pointed to the NAO's findings that the HMRC calculates the...
[April 3, 2008, 8:41]
Child Support IT Failures Savaged
News A National Audit Office (NAO) report this week has found that the CSA spends 70 pence for every £1 it collects and has a backlog of 300,000 cases, with each case taking an average of nine months to process instead of the six-week target.
[July 3, 2006, 10:45]
Public Should Benefit From E-government Savings
News The National Audit Office (NAO) has recommended that some of the cost savings that the government will make by providing its services online should be passed on to users. The government is committed to offering all its services online by 2005 but...
[April 5, 2002, 11:57]
Report Raises Doubts Over EPassport Project
News A report from the National Audit Office (NAO) on ePassports said the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has "successfully completed the project" with a total set-up cost of £61m, just under the budget of £63m.
[February 8, 2007, 16:06]
Ignorance Hampers E-government Drive
News The National Audit Office (NAO) also said that while the e-envoy's office has done a good job in pushing the case for e-government within Westminster, it must now focus on helping departments implement their online initiatives.
[April 25, 2002, 12:23]
Road-tax Evaders Targeted With New Tech
News National evasion levels have risen to 4.5 per cent of the £4.6bn annual road tax revenue in 2002/2003 and the NAO said new anti-evasion methods should be employed to crack down on those who dodge the charge.
[September 12, 2003, 16:55]
NHS IT Report Was Watered Down
News One UK IT expert who was involved with the NAO report confirmed to ZDNet UK that changes were made to the draft report after it was circulated to various interested parties, including the UK Government, at the start of this year.
[August 21, 2006, 12:55]
Darling Blames Officials For Data Loss
News In a statement to the House of Commons on 20 November, 2007, Darling confirmed that two password-protected discs had been sent to the National Audit Office (NAO) for auditing purposes in mid October but had not arrived.
[November 21, 2007, 7:16]
Department Of Health Dismisses NHS IT Blame
News The Department of Health was quick to retort, noting that the PAC report was based on a National Audit Office (NAO) report from last year. It insisted that Connecting for Health (CfH) — the NHS department running NPfIT — had since acted on the NAO...
[April 17, 2007, 14:17]
