• Government’s Verify identity scheme gets a stinging rebuke from the NAO

  Alaa Owaineh, Lead Analyst, Public Sector, Global Data on the National Audit Office’s damning report...
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• NAO highlights IT systems risks facing Brexit ‘no deal’ scenario

  Many of the key risks to UK border operations if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement on 29…
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• NAO demands more transparency in major government projects

  The National Audit Office (NAO) has called on the government to increase transparency to improve the delivery of government’s biggest…
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• NAO broadly backs Defra’s Brexit IT efforts but frets over quality and maturity of workstream plans

  The National Audit Office (NAO) has recognised the significant challenge for the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)…
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• Home Office makes progress towards new ESN product and service timeline

  The Home Office, which has seen its ambitious Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) struggle to meet deadlines, has taken…
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• Morse: Government must rely on private providers because it has “neither the skills nor financial capacity to take back much delivery in house”

  The National Audit Office’s (NAO) Comptroller & Auditor General Sir Amyas Morse has said he expects private and third sector…
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• NAO welcomes HMRC progress but highlights risks to delivery of new Customs Declaration Service

  The National Audit Office (NAO) in a progress update report published today has warned that ‘significant challenges’ remain in the…
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• NAO: Universal Credit ‘not offering value for money now and its future value is unproven’

  The National Audit Office (NAO) has concluded that the extended timescales involved in rolling out Universal Credit and the cost…
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• Home Office urged to back new ESN leader Bryan Clark’s ‘customer centric’ path

  ESN future may hinge on emergency services’ confidence in programme Sources close to the Home Office’s Emergency Services Mobile Communications…
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