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Progress in tackling benefit fraud

Great Britain: National Audit Office
Progress in tackling benefit fraud Book PDF

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0102951772

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Progress in tackling benefit fraud by Great Britain: National Audit Office Pdf

This NAO report is a follow up to one issued in the 2002-03 session (HC 393, ISBN 9780102920635), Tackling Benefit Fraud. The report sets out some key facts, including: that the total benefit expenditure is £120 billion; the total number of recipients is 18 million; the total estimated fraud is £0.8 billion. In the 2006-07 period, £154 million was spent on six strategies to reduce fraud, with a Departmental estimate of £106 million of benefit overpayments identified as a result of fraud investigation and compliance activity. Also in the 2006-07 period, the Department recovered £22 million of the total £339 million outstanding fraud debt. Although the NAO has identified that fraud has fallen from an estimated £2 billion in 2001-02 to an estimated £0.8 billion in 2006-07, official error has risen in the same period from £1 billion to £1.9 billion. Tackling fraud is a key priority for the Department for Work and Pensions, and the report examines the main anti-fraud initiatives, recognising that: tackling benefit is inherently difficult; that the UK has levels of social security fraud and error which are similar to those of comparable countries; that the Department has made good progress in tackling fraud, but will find it increasingly difficult to secure further year on year reductions. The NAO has also set out a number of recommendations, including: that the Department's management information on fraud could be improved, with greater communication between the various departmental directorates responsible for counter-fraud work; that a review of the cost effectiveness of the Customer Compliance approach (which deals with lower risk cases of fraud) should be done; that a record of the outcomes of prosecution activities should be taken by case type to provide better Departmental information; that the Department must review recovery of overpayments in fraud cases and consider setting appropriate targets for recovery from customers who have committed fraud.

Progress in Tackling Benefit Fraud

Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Progress in Tackling Benefit Fraud Book PDF

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0215521579

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Progress in Tackling Benefit Fraud by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Pdf

Benefit fraud is a crime and undermines public confidence in the benefits system. In 2006-07, the Department for Work and Pensions estimated that it spent some £154 million on tackling fraud, identifying £106 million of overpaid benefit, against total benefit expenditure of £120 billion. The Department estimates that fraud fell from £2 billion in 2001-02 to £800 million in 2006-07, which is 0.6% of benefit expenditure. But the Department must do more to reverse the rise in official and customer error. Estimated error rose from £1 billion in 2001-02 to £1.9 billion in 2006-07. Benefit complexity is believed to be a major cause of error. Increasing the volume of pre-payment checks and encouraging customers to receive benefit payments directly into their bank accounts has prevented some fraud. The Department now works closely with the police, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and local authorities to prevent, identify and act against fraud. But it could make more effective use of its powers and resources. While the Department successfully prosecutes 90 per cent of the cases it takes to court, the Prosecution Division has lost 17 per cent of its staff since 2003. Debt recovery is an essential part of tackling fraud, yet in 2006-07 the Department only recovered £22 million of fraud debt out of a known fraud debt stock of £339 million. The Department has been slow to improve its management information systems, hampering its ability to measure the cost-effectiveness of counter-fraud activities. It has taken from 2003 until February 2008 to roll out a new national management information system, known as FRAIMS, at a cost of £65 million.

Tackling Benefit Fraud

Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0215011546

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Tackling Benefit Fraud by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Pdf

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spends about £100 billion per year on welfare benefits (representing more than a quarter of central government expenditure) and it is estimated that £2 billion pounds are lost each year due to fraudulent claims, mostly for Income Support, Jobseeker's Allowance and Housing Benefit. Following on from a National Audit Office report (HCP 393, session 2002-03; ISBN 010292063X), the Committee's report examines the progress made in reducing fraud levels, further actions required; and in particular considers the special problems of Housing Benefit fraud. The main conclusions reached include: i) that although the DWP has made some progress, more still needs to be done, for example in establishing performance improvement plans to address regional disparities; ii) the DWP will need to demonstrate that new initiatives launched to reduce housing benefit fraud are effective in reducing long-standing problems in performance deficiencies of some local authorities; and iii) the complexity of the benefits system needs to be reduced in order to made real and sustained progress in tackling benefit fraud.

Reducing losses in the benefits system caused by customers' mistakes

Great Britain: National Audit Office
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Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0102970033

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Reducing losses in the benefits system caused by customers' mistakes by Great Britain: National Audit Office Pdf

The Department for Work and Pensions does not yet have enough evidence to demonstrate that its activities to reduce the cost of mistakes by customers have been value for money. Mistakes made by claimants in the information they provide to the Department, termed customer error, are difficult to detect, correct and prevent. The scale of overpayments and underpayments demonstrate a clear imperative for improvement. Mistakes made by customers are difficult for the Department to tackle because they often arise from a change in customers' circumstances, which customers may not realise they have to tell the Department about. Overpayments due to customer error, which are estimated at £1.1 billion in 2009-10, represent a substantial loss to the taxpayer. And underpayments, which were approximately £800 million in 2009-10, can cause hardship for the families affected. The establishment by the Department of the Fraud and Error Council shows a commitment to tackling fraud and error, but there is little evidence that sufficient attention has been paid to reducing losses due to customer mistakes. The Department launched a five year strategy for tackling error in January 2007 but there has been no discernible decrease between 2006-07 and 2009-10 in underpayments and overpayments due to customer error as a percentage of total benefits expenditure. The Department and its agencies do not yet have enough information to target initiatives effectively. Nor is there enough consistently measured data on the costs and benefits of interventions.

Income Support for the Poorest

Emil Tesliuc,Lucian Pop,Margaret Grosh,Ruslan Yemtsov
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Author : Emil Tesliuc,Lucian Pop,Margaret Grosh,Ruslan Yemtsov
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781464802386

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Income Support for the Poorest by Emil Tesliuc,Lucian Pop,Margaret Grosh,Ruslan Yemtsov Pdf

This study reviews the role and workings, with their strengths and weaknesses of last-resort income support (LRIS) programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It draws on a combination of household survey and administrative data for a large group of countries and detailed case studies for a smaller number of countries that span the spectrum of the income range in the region. It thus combines the value of wide, comparable multi-country work with that of in-depth, country-specific probing on key themes. The experiences of LRIS programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have demonstrated the technical feasibility of highly efficient poverty-targeted programs in the region. The detailed case studies suggest how programs can improve their coverage, control error and fraud and be implemented effectively in decentralized settings. This experience is pertinent to other regions as well, adding to the know-how for poverty targeting programs in middle and low income countries. Perhaps especially importantly, the book shows that means testing can be accomplished in settings with sizeable informal sectors and at reasonable administrative costs. The study also suggests that currently the role of last resort income support programs within the overall social protection systems of the region is often too small and that their eligibility thresholds should be revised and indexed, so that the programs continue to serve a meaningful swath of the low income households in each country. Moreover the programs can be used as the nexus to weave together a variety of income supports and services for low income households.

Applied Issues in Investigative Interviewing, Eyewitness Memory, and Credibility Assessment

Barry S. Cooper,Dorothee Griesel,Marguerite Ternes
Applied Issues in Investigative Interviewing Eyewitness Memory and Credibility Assessment Book PDF

Author : Barry S. Cooper,Dorothee Griesel,Marguerite Ternes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461455479

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Applied Issues in Investigative Interviewing, Eyewitness Memory, and Credibility Assessment by Barry S. Cooper,Dorothee Griesel,Marguerite Ternes Pdf

Contingent on funding being available, a Festschrift will be held in honor of Dr. John Yuille’s career as a Forensic Psychologist. He has become one of the most visible and respected Canadian psychologists worldwide. In light of his upcoming retirement in December 2006, the Festschrift will recognize Dr. Yuille’s achievements in the areas of eyewitness memory research (i.e., pioneering a new research paradigm that grants better validity), investigative interviewing (i.e., the development and use of the Step Wise Interview Protocol), and credibility assessment (i.e., introducing Statement Validity Analysis to North America). New directions for future work will be explored at the workshop. The focus of this Festschrift will be three-fold: 1. International. Dr. Yuille’s work has influenced law enforcement practices and stimulated research in and outside of Canada. The international and multicultural aspects of the work that Dr. Yuille has inspired will be reflected and promoted by this workshop. 2. Interdisciplinary. Dr. Yuille is internationally known as an expert, consultant and trainer to law enforcement. As such, Dr. Yuille’s work has also influenced other disciplines, e.g., the law, social work, oral history. The participants of this Festschrift will gain insight into other professionals’ perspectives and foster potential collaborations on future projects. 3. Emphasis on applied research. A hallmark of Dr. Yuille’s research has been the application of field and archival methods, which made his work directly applicable to forensically relevant contexts. The potential future directions of applied forensic research will be discussed at this Festschrift. The importance of the subject at this time: - A lack of integrative models in the literatures of eyewitness memory and the assessment of truthfulness and deception. Presenters of the Festschrift have recently developed such models and will discuss them at the Festschrift. Publishing these models and their discussions will spark further research to validate or modify them. - New, pioneering field research based on such integrative models has recently been conducted. This book would be one of the first publications of the results.

Mandating the Measurement of Fraud

M. Tunley
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Author : M. Tunley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137406286

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Mandating the Measurement of Fraud by M. Tunley Pdf

This project examines the concept of fraud loss measurement by critiquing existing measurement methodologies, and argues for the mandating of fraud loss measurement by enforced self regulation, the creation of a British Standard of fraud loss measurement, and the establishment of an information exchange matrix to develop best practice.

Hmrc

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Hmrc Book PDF

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0215525353

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Hmrc by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Pdf

Tax lost through the hidden economy could be over £2 billion and involve some 2 million people. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) spent 41 million in 2006-07 on encouraging people and businesses into the formal economy, detecting and imposing sanctions on those operating in the hidden economy, achieving a return/cost ration of 4.5:1. HMRC detects some 30,000 hidden economy cases a year, a detection rate of only around 1.5 per cent, but the amount of tax recovered has increased by 13 per cent in real terms since 2003-04. Areas of risk include: self-employed builders and decorators who often receive cash payments; individuals who trade on the internet; and buy-to-let landlords. To increase detections HMRC is making more use of data matching techniques, and the Tax Evasion hotline received over 120,000 calls in 2006-07, but progress in investigating cases has been slow with only 2000 completed against a target of 5,500. HMRC can impose penalties of up to 100 per cent of tax owed, but usually imposes a lower penalty or waives them. Prosecutions are not given much publicity, limiting their wider deterrent effect. Advertising campaigns to encourage people to declare tax owed have led to 8,300 registrations bringing in extra tax of £38 million over three years. Offshore Disclosure arrangements have been even more successful following landmark rulings requiring financial institutions to release details of around 400,000 offshore accounts. Some 45,000 people came forward bringing in around £400 million at a cost of £6 million, a return of £67 for every £1 spent.

Handbook on Crime

Fiona Brookman,Mike Maguire,Harriet Pierpoint,Trevor Bennett
Handbook on Crime Book PDF

Author : Fiona Brookman,Mike Maguire,Harriet Pierpoint,Trevor Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317436744

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Handbook on Crime by Fiona Brookman,Mike Maguire,Harriet Pierpoint,Trevor Bennett Pdf

The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges many popular and official conceptions of crime. This book is one of the few criminological texts that takes as its starting point a range of specific types of criminal activity. It addresses not only 'conventional' offences such as shoplifting, burglary, robbery, and vehicle crime, but many other forms of criminal behaviour - often an amalgamation of different legal offences - which attract contemporary media, public and policy concern. These include crimes committed not only by individuals, but by organised criminal groups, corporations and governments. There are chapters on, for example, gang violence, hate crime, elder abuse, animal abuse, cyber crime, identity theft, money-laundering, eco crimes, drug trafficking, human trafficking, genocide, and global terrorism. Many of these topics receive surprisingly little attention in the criminological literature. The Handbook on Crime will be a unique text of lasting value to students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers, journalists and all others involved in understanding and preventing criminal behaviour.

Management of Large Business Corporation Tax

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0215523881

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Management of Large Business Corporation Tax by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Pdf

In 2006-07, Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (the Department) raised a total of £23.8 billion in Corporation Tax from large businesses. There are some 700 of these businesses, and in 2005-06, just 50 of them paid 67 per cent of the large business Corporation Tax, whilst 181 businesses paid none. Two-thirds of the tax comes from the banking, oil and gas and insurance sectors. Businesses pay little or no Corporation Tax because, for example, they have made a loss, or had losses in previous years, or they are using tax reliefs, or engaging in tax avoidance. In 2006-07, the Department's large business Corporation Tax enquiry programme raised nearly £2.7 billion. Many of these enquiries were poorly targeted, with nearly 60 per cent producing less than 1 per cent of the additional tax raised. The enquiries also take too long: in January 2008, 42 per cent of its enquiries were over two years old, and 10 per cent over four years old. In February 2007, based on initial review of tax returns from the previous 12 months, the Department estimated that the potential Corporation Tax at risk was £8.5 billion. The tax assessments are very complicated and there has been a widening gap between the skill set of large business tax staff and that of the Large Business Service. The Department is bringing in external recruits, including retired tax advisors, to help to train its staff and to deal with the more complicated technical work.

Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices

Maria Barrados,Jeremy Lonsdale
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Author : Maria Barrados,Jeremy Lonsdale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000042498

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Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices by Maria Barrados,Jeremy Lonsdale Pdf

Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices brings together academic analysis with insights from practitioners to discuss the potential for collaboration in audit and evaluation practices between three professional disciplines. Clearly written and thoughtfully organized, this volume is structured in three parts to deal with theory, practice issues and how the practices have worked together. • Part One provides definitions of performance audit, internal audit and program evaluation. • Part Two addresses several challenges that professionals face in applying these standards and principles. • Part Three contains examples of organizational collaboration between the practices, how they have worked together and the lessons that were learned from that experience. Specific cases from the Government Accountability Office, and UNESCO, UNDP and Inter-Americas Development Bank illustrate what has worked or not and suggest reasons why. Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices offers even the most skilled and experienced professional insight on how to bridge some of the divides. It will help generate a better understanding of the activities and services that are either imposed on them or are freely available and help to stimulate their optimal use.

Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry

Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 021552070X

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Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee Pdf

This report considers the case for Parliament to be able to initiate and conduct inquiries into serious and significant matters of public concern. It takes up the recommendationmade by this committiee's predecessor Committee (in the Government by Inquiry Report) that there should be a parliamentary mechanism for initiating inquiries. These would take the form of Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry, composed of parliamentarians and others. In the Report, the committee examines the justification for creating Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry in particular, that they would enable Parliament to hold the Executive to account more effectively. Then it covers some of the practical issues involved in setting up inquiries of this nature: how Parliament could instigate an inquiry, its composition, and its operation and powers. The committee concludes that it is crucial, in constitutional sense, that Parliament has the necessary powers and abilities to scrutinise the Executive and hold it to account. Proper parliamentary scrutiny should include the ability to establish and undertake inquiries into significant matters of public concern. Parliament has, in the past, conducted investigationsof this kind and as the great forum of the nation, should be expected to do so. The committee's recommendation for Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry would promoteeffective parliamentary accountability by creating a process for Parliament to initiate inquirieswhere it rather than the Executive sees fit.

Preparing for Sporting Success at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Beyond

Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0215522095

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Preparing for Sporting Success at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Beyond by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Pdf

The Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and UK Sport have responsibility for elite sport in the UK. To support goals for London 2012, the Government has agreed a package of funding of over £700 million, while the DCMS will be required to raise £100 million from the private sector. This report follows up recommendations in the Committee's previous report on supporting elite athletes published in July 2006 (HC 898, session 2005-06. ISBN 9780215029768). It was found then that many funded sports had not met their medal targets at the Athens games in 2004. In particular concerns were raised about the way UK Sport measured and reported its own performance and the need for greater clarity about the level of performance required from individual sports in order to secure future funding was highlighted. UK Sport continues to plan on the basis that it will receive all of its funding up to 2012. However there remains a risk that the £100 million from the private sector will not all be raised.On the basis of a report by Comptroller and Auditor General (HC 434, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780102953084) the Committee took evidence from the DCMS and UK Sport on their fudning strategy for medial success at London 2012; their setting of targets and monitoring of progress towards the Games; and their approach to securing wider and long term benefits from elite sporting success.

The Roll-out of the Jobcentre Plus Office Network

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 0215523555

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The Roll-out of the Jobcentre Plus Office Network by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Pdf

Between 2002 and 2008 the Department for Work and Pension replaced over 1,500 jobcentres and social security offices across Great Britain with a network of just over 800 modernised Jobcentre Plus offices. The aim was to improve significantly the job-seeking experience and the delivery of benefits by providing a service similar to that offered by a bank or modern retailer. To achieve such a radical shift the Department merged the Employment Service and the Benefits Agency into a new integrated service Jobcentre Plus. This roll-out was one of the largest public sector construction programmes undertaken in the UK in recent years. Having learnt lessons from early difficulties, the project was successful in delivering nearly all the planned offices, while making savings against the original budget of £2.2 billion. The estate rationalisation generated savings of £135 million a year, and the Department estimates that the roll-out will ultimately lead to cumulative benefits of £6 billion. The successful delivery of the programme can be attributed to sound governance, intelligent use of existing guidance and external advice, strong support from the leadership of the organisation and, critically, the consistent senior management team. The successful implementation of the project has important lessons for other major government programmes.

Managing Financial Resources to Deliver Better Public Services

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0215523547

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Managing Financial Resources to Deliver Better Public Services by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Pdf

Annually, central government spends some £558 billion, and this is forecast to increase to £678 billion by 2010-11. Strong and competent financial resources management is central to departments meeting their objectives cost effectively and delivering public services which represent value for money. Since the Committee's last report on this topic (HC 181, 25th report of session 2003-04, ISBN 9780215023636) the number of qualified finance directors with a seat on the departmental board has increased, enhancing the focus on financial performance at senior management level, but the lack of financial skills and awareness amongst non-finance staff remains a barrier to improving financial management more generally across government. Accruals-based accounting and budgeting systems are helping some departments identify under-utilised assets and dispose of those no longer required. Departments need to improve their forecasting capabilities to strengthen budgetary control and to avoid underspends not being identified early enough to reallocate resources to other priorities. Departments are continuing to spend less money than they forecast, particularly on capital projects, increasing the risk that resources are not being allocated across government in the most effective way. Few departmental boards are presented with accurate, timely and integrated financial and operational performance information to enable them to take sufficiently informed decisions on the use of resources and to review performance. Although the Treasury and Cabinet Office have a number of initiative to improve resource management, there is some way to go before financial management is fully embedded within departmental cultures.