organization:national audit office

Government breached personal data security 9,000 times in a year
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/14/government-breached-personal-data-security-9000-times-in-a-year-nao-wat

Self-reporting rules allowed Whitehall departments to notify only 14 of total breaches to the Information Commissioner, says National Audit Office Personal data security was breached nearly 9,000 times by the government in a year, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. The watchdog revealed the 17 largest departments recorded 8,995 data breaches in 2014-15 – but that only 14 were reported to the Information Commissioner (ICO). Whitehall departments can decide which personal data (...)

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DWP fit-to-work assessments cost more money than they save, report reveals
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-fit-to-work-assessments-cost-more-than-they-save-report-reveals-a

The Government is spending more money assessing whether people are fit to work than it is saving in reductions to the benefits bill, a damning official report has revealed

The study by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that the Department for Work and Pensions is handing over £1.6bn over the next three years to private contractors who carry out the controversial health and disability assessments. 

But at the same time, the Government’s own financial watchdog has warned that savings in benefits payments are likely to be less than a billion pounds by 2020 as a result of the new tests.

A fifth of UK big businesses pay no corporation tax - FT.com
▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/46aa42bc-b5d4-11e3-b40e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xI78HlCw

... while more than half paid less than £10m, according to an official report into the mounting cost of tax reliefs.

The National Audit Office calculated that the cost of tax reliefs had increased from 16 per cent to 21 per cent of gross domestic product since 2005.

The government’s spending watchdog also found that 21 per cent of all corporate tax in 2011-12 was paid by only 35 of the UK’s 975,000 companies.

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