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Effective road and traffic management – a briefing for the Transport Select...

The analysis focuses on the motorway and trunk road network in line with the NAO’s remit of examining central Government expenditure and delivery. We have not updated the information contained in the...

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Department of Transport Accounts 2010-11

The NAO has published its report on the 2010-11 accounts of the Department of Transport.July 2011

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Departmental Overview: A summary of the NAO’s work on the Department for...

This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we have produced covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department for Transport during 2010-2011.

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Overviews of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and Driving Standards...

Each briefing takes as its basis the Agency’s Annual Report and Accounts 2010-11, drawing in particular upon the work of the NAO and incorporating material from other published sources where relevant....

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Reducing costs in the Department for Transport

The National Audit Office has commended the Department for Transport for starting its preparations for the 2010 spending review early and taking steps to improve and challenge the evidence on which it...

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The completion and sale of High Speed 1

The National Audit Office has today published a report on the construction and sale of the high speed railway line linking the Channel Tunnel with central London. The High Speed 1 project has...

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Review of the data systems for the Department for Transport

The purpose and scope of this review Our examination of the data systems used to report performance for this department involved a detailed review of the processes and controls governing: the...

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Departmental Overview: A summary of the NAO’s work on the Department for...

This guide is designed to provide a quick and accessible overview of the Department and focus in particular on where we believe the Department’s performance could be improved, using examples from our...

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Funding for local transport: an overview

The National Audit Office has today published a report identifying issues and risks which may arise as the Department for Transport devolves more control over funding and delivery of transport...

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Lessons from cancelling the InterCity West Coast franchise competition

The Department for Transport competition to let the Intercity West Coast franchise lacked management oversight and the governance of the project was confused, according to the National Audit Office....

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High Speed 2: A review of early programme preparation

In an early examination of progress by the Department for Transport in planning for the High Speed 2 rail network, the National Audit Office has expressed reservations about the Department’s business...

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Progress in delivering the Thameslink programme

The Department for Transport has done well so far to contain the infrastructure costs for the Thameslink Programme within the original budget, according to an examination of the progress being made to...

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2012-13 review of the data systems for the Department for Transport

The purpose and scope of this review Our examination of the data systems used to report performance for this department involved a detailed review of the processes and controls governing: the...

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Departmental Overview: The performance of the Department for Transport 2012-13

This guide is designed to provide a quick and accessible overview of the Department and focus in particular on where we believe the Department’s performance could be improved, using examples from our...

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Crossrail

Taxpayers’ interest in the Crossrail programme has so far been well protected, according to the National Audit Office. If progress in providing the new rail service for London and the South-East can be...

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Maintaining strategic infrastructure: roads

Funding pressures on highways authorities have encouraged efficiency and innovation in how budgets for road maintenance are spent, but public value will be lost unless funding becomes more predictable,...

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Procuring new trains

The Department for Transport signed contracts for two large procurements of rolling stock – for Thameslink and Intercity Express – in line with broad objectives. These include reducing the long-term...

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Departmental Overview: The performance of the Department for Transport 2013-14

This guide is designed to provide a quick and accessible overview of the Department and focus in particular on where we believe the Department’s performance could be improved, using examples from our...

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Lessons from major rail infrastructure programmes

A National Audit Office review today of five major rail projects* sponsored by the Department for Transport since 1998 highlights 11 lessons it should apply to its current and future rail programmes....

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Crossrail

Taxpayers’ interest in the Crossrail programme has so far been well protected, according to the National Audit Office. If progress in providing the new rail service for London and the South-East can be...

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