NAO Framework to Review Programmes

Four key elements:

1. Purpose – is there a strategic need for the programme and is this the right programme to meet the business need?
2. Value – does the programme provide value for money?
3. Programme set-up – is the programme set up in accordance with good practice and are risks being well managed?
4. Delivery & variation management – are mechanisms in place to deliver the intended outcomes and respond to change, and is the programme progressing according to plan?

Under each of these four elements there are a series of 18 ‘Key questions’ that are asked covering Stakeholders, dependencies, resources, benefits, external change and lessons learned among others.

Link to the framework is here.

Other Tools

Other Reports covered:

• Purpose:
  • Improving children and young people’s mental health services
  • Progress delivering the ‘One Mission, One Bank’ strategy
  • Sustainability and transformation in the NHS
  • Developing new care models through NHS vanguards
  • Rolling out Universal Credit
  • E20: renewing the Eastenders set

• Value:
  • Investigation into DfT decision to cancel three electrification projects
  • The new generation electronic monitoring programme
  • Hinkley Point C
  • E20: renewing the Eastenders set
  • Investigation into the British Army’s Recruiting Partnering Project

• Programme set up
  • Nuclear decommissioning Authority (NDA);s Magnox contract
  • Improving children and young people’s mental health services
  • The Sheffield to Rotherham tram-train project: investigation into the modification of the national rail network
  • Rolling out Smart Meters
  • The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games: post-Games Review

• Delivery and Variation Management
  • The Defence Nuclear Enterprise
  • Transforming Rehabilitation
  • Update on the Thameslink Programme
  • Crown Commercial Service