Public Accounts - Seventeenth Report

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 30 November 2005.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Report

Introduction

1 Achieving value for money in the delivery of public services

Properly prepare and plan project implementation

Strengthen project management

Reduce complexity and bureaucracy

Improve public service productivity

Be more commercially astute

Tackle fraud

Implement policies better and in a more timely way

ANNEX

1 Examples of Reports on the need for proper preparation and project implementation

2 Examples of Reports highlighting the need to strengthen project management

3 Examples of Reports highlighting the need to reduce complexity and bureaucracy

4 Examples of Reports highlighting the need for departments to be more commercially astute

5 Examples of Reports highlighting the need to tackle fraud

6 Examples of Reports on the need for better and more timely implementation of programmes and policies

Formal minutes

List of Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts Session 2005-06

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Prepared 6 December 2005