Ministers and officials are spending billions of pounds on projects that are never properly evaluated, according to the head of the National Audit Office. Gareth Davies says that too often the government has not learnt from its failures and has “little information” on “what difference is made by the billions of pounds being spent”. SponsoredIn an article for The Times Davies, who took over at the spending watchdog in May 2019, says that he was concerned to see that lessons that might have helped the government to deal with Covid had not been learnt. He says there is little evidence that things have improved even though it has “never been more important that the government makes the right choices” after the pandemic. Recent research by

Source: The Times January 10, 2022 20:24 UTC