Annual Reports
ECGD: ECGD, the UK’s export credit agency, has published its Annual Review and Resource Accounts 2009-10, showing it provided 33% more support to UK exporters in 2010-11. The most significant development in 2010-11 was the launch of the new products announced in the Government’s white paper Trade and Investment for Growth. As a result ECGD is now able to support a much broader range of exporters. ECGD has started a comprehensive programme to inform exporters about its new products.
OFT: The OFT has published its Annual Report for the last financial year alongside an estimate of the financial benefits of its activities to consumers.
FSA: The General Advisory Committee on Science (GACS) has published its third annual report, which describes the committee’s work over the past year. GACS provides independent advice to the Food Standards Agency on how the FSA uses science.
FSA: The Food Standards Agency has published its Annual Report and Consolidated Accounts 2010/11. The report highlights that during the past year, the Agency delivered a 35% reduction in expenditure in real terms, with the net cost of the FSA falling from £139.2m to £89.9m. In the forthcoming year this will continue with efforts to deliver further savings of £28.8m for Westminster by 2014/15.
In addition, to help ensure food produced or sold in the UK is safe to eat, the FSA took action on almost 1,600 national food & environmental contamination incidents during the past financial year, ranging from counterfeit vodka, to salmonella in bean sprouts.
ISA: The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) has published its annual report which outlines the organisation's key achievements & challenges during the last year. For the first time, this year's annual report also details the complexities of ISA decision-making by taking the reader through two ‘life of a case’ examples.
CQC: The Care Quality Commission’s report on their second year as the regulator of England’s health & adult social care services was laid before Parliament last week.
NO: A service for everyone’ is how Ann Abraham, Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman, describes her Office’s role in resolving 23,667 enquiries from the public last year. Published recently, the Ombudsman’s Annual Report 2010-11 explains the different ways her Office has resolved complaints about government departments & agencies or the NHS in England over the last year.
While more cases (403) were taken on for formal investigation compared with the year before – including double the number of complaints about government bodies – the Ombudsman’s Office also resolved over 600 cases directly, without the need for a formal investigation.
IPCC: The Independent Police Complaints Commission 2010/11 Annual Report has today been laid before parliament.
NO: Complaints to the Local Government Ombudsmen increased over the last year and the upward trend is expected to continue, reveals their Annual Report 2010/11 – Delivering public value. The report shows a 21% increase in complaints & enquiries dealt with at the initial point of contact, raising the number received to 21,840. This resulted in 7.5% more complaints being forwarded to the Ombudsmen’s investigation teams, a total of 11,249 complaints in 2010/11.
Newswire - CCC: The UK is coping now, but it is near its limits in some key sectors and could be pushed over the edge by climate change. But by preparing now, the UK can reduce the adverse effects of climate change and take advantage of opportunities, according to a new report published by the Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC).
In the water sector for example, while only 8% of resource zones in England are currently at risk of a supply shortfall in a severe drought, this could increase to around 45% by 2035 without additional investment. The UK’s vulnerability to climate change is potentially increasing as a result of patterns of building development in some areas and demographic trends.
