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Prolonged legal procedures in criminal matters
Go to detailThe audit focused on the administration's actions to streamline protracted criminal procedures. A criminal procedure is a chain consisting of a preliminary investigation, consideration of charges and court proceedings. The audit focused on the years 2010–2024. The audit assessed how the administrati...
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Immigration: Skilled Worker visas
Go to detailThe Skilled Worker visa route is the main immigration route for people to apply to work in the UK. The government opened the route in December 2020 following the UK’s exit from the European Union, which ended European free movement rights. Its aims were to deliver a fair and flexible visa system whi...
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Investigation into the MoD’s oversight of the Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Associations
Go to detailEstablished in 1908, the Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Associations (RFCAs) support and provide infrastructure for the reserve forces and cadet forces of the British Army, the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. Reserve forces are made up of volunteers, many with full-time jobs, who use their spare ti...
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NHS England’s management of elective care transformation programmes
Go to detailSince 2013, the statutory elective care waiting time standard has been that for 92% of elective care pathways, patients should begin treatment within 18 weeks from referral. This was last achieved in September 2015. As at January 2025, around 6.25 million people were waiting for elective care on 7.4...
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Investigation into introducing T Levels
Go to detailThe Department for Education (DfE) launched T Levels following recommendations from the 2016 Sainsbury Review, which outlined the need for new technical education routes, standards set by employers, and industry placements. As such, DfE aims for T Levels to improve technical education; better meet e...
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UK Research and Innovation: providing support through grants
Go to detailThe government considers research and innovation (R&I) and the diffusion of new technologies to be vital to the UK’s future and to achieving its major long‑term and complex policy goals, including its mission to grow the UK economy and achieve net zero. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the UK’s ...
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Collecting the right tax from wealthy individuals
Go to detailHM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) defines wealthy individuals as those earning more than £200,000 a year, or with assets over £2 million, in any of the last three years. In 2023-24, HMRC identified approximately 850,000 individuals as wealthy, around 2% of individual UK taxpayers. Wealthy individuals ofte...
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Improving family court services for children
Go to detailFamily justice is concerned with keeping children safe and helping families resolve disputes. It includes cases on protecting children, who children live with and how they spend time with their family, as well as divorce, adoption and associated financial arrangements. In this report we focus on the...
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Managing FCDO’s overseas estate
Go to detailThe Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) leads the UK’s diplomatic, development and consular work around the world. To support this, it manages an overseas estate of approximately 6,500 properties, mostly located in 282 locations (known as posts) in 180 countries and territories. The nu...
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Resilience to animal diseases
Go to detailAnimal disease outbreaks are a significant threat to England’s farming sector, to food security, to human health, to rural communities, to animal keepers and to the economy and trade. They can also have a negative impact on wildlife. Past outbreaks have had significant economic impacts. For example,...
