Introduction
1. On 11 July 2007 we decided to review the corporate
governance arrangements of the National Audit Office (NAO) to
ensure that these conformed to best practice. In November we
commissioned John Tiner to conduct the review, with terms of reference
which focused on the role of the Comptroller and Auditor General
(C&AG) and his relationship with the NAO. Following the submission
of the review to us by John Tiner, we discussed it with him and
with Tim Burr, C&AG, on 5 February. We published the review,
without comment, on 6 February as our 14th report.[1]
The purpose of the current report is to give our response to
the review.
- We are grateful to John Tiner for his thorough
and helpful analysis of the current governance arrangements of
the NAO and for his proposals. We believe his review makes a
convincing case for strengthening the corporate governance of
the NAO, and we warmly welcome it.
1 Public Accounts Commission, Fourteenth Report, Review
of the National Audit Office's Corporate Governance (February
2008), HC 328 (2007-08).The terms of reference are at para 12
of that report. Back
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