The 'missing' £10 million has been estimated by the independent National Audit Office in a report published earlier this month.

These two documents provided, for the first time in over a century, a summary of the various arguments on the subject of a national audit office.

The spiralling cost of parliament's £250m new building, Portcullis House, is revealed in detail by the national audit office today.

The National Audit Office report in December showed that changes already agreed will reduce public sector pensions costs by 14%.

I attach great importance to the development of team spirit and esprit de corps and to the quest for close ties with national audit offices.

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Where the national audit offices are not in a position to meet the Court of Auditors' requirements, private professional firms should be asked to do so.'

Two years ago, China doubled the budget of its national auditing office, which has become increasingly aggressive in scanning the books of government units and state companies.

When ministers pay out such sums it is "in the national interest", and the Treasury and national audit office nod in sage agreement.

The Commission has established working relations with many national audit offices and found a positive attitude towards auditing EU funds in shared management.

A national audit office, headed by the C & AG, was proposed to centralize and coordinate public sector audits.

An inquiry by the National Audit Office, published last September, found that many of the academies set up under Labour were performing impressively.

Gerald William Garside, lately Director, National Audit Office.

I believe that the activity performed by Parliament, the Court of Auditors and the national audit offices of countries, Member States alike is highly important.

Auditor General of National Audit Offices (Government Auditing)

The following year, workers at HMRC sent two unencrypted computer disks through the post to the National Audit Office.

Figures from the National Audit Office found that the Government's Mortgage Rescue Scheme achieved fewer than half of the results expected and cost £35m more.

Is my hon. Friend aware that there is a Bill to extend the powers of the National Audit Office to consider the Opposition's policies?

The National Audit Office and the Statistics Commission both treat Network Rail Ltd as a state-owned company.

Peter Michael JEFFORD, Director, National Audit Office.

We know that not only the Court of Auditors of the European Union but also the national audit offices of the Member States apply very stringent criteria.

The National Audit Office is planning to intensify its scrutiny of public spending next year with further investigations into the Government's privatisation programme, green policies, homelessness, housing and inner city strategies.

The National Audit Office Report on the FMI (1986) found, in practice, that departments differed in the extent to which they had adopted the FMI.

Customs and excise has lost £620m of revenue by bungling surveillance operations on professional criminals selling tax-free drink to pubs and clubs, a report by the national audit office reveals today.

This was a key finding of a National Audit Office report last week into the track record of the Government's existing venture capital funds, and I fear that lesson has not been learned.