From next year, doctors will have to take part in a national audit programme so that they can compare their performance on a national basis.

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Even Mr Mugabe's own former secretary, Charles Utete, has produced an (unpublished) audit of the land reform programme that shows corruption and misrule.

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It requires financial firms to designate compliance officers, develop a training programme and create an independent audit process.

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The project is part of a greater five-step rehabilitation programme to recruit, train, audit, employ and mentor inmates to reduce overall reoffending rates.

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For the opposition, Lord McKenzie of Luton pointed to a recent National Audit Office (NAO) report which said the programme had been "bedevilled by speed of introduction".

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Officials say the programme will tackle the problems highlighted in this latest Audit Commission report.

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Separately, the National Audit Office is also investigating the overall safeguards built into the work programme.

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According to the National Audit Office only a quarter of the claimed savings were fairly represented while the second efficiency programme launched just last year is "cutting services to claim efficiencies" - and has "acute" measurement problems.

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In February, the National Audit Office said HMRC had improved its value for money in 2011-12 as it began a programme to reduce annual running costs by 25% by 2014-15.

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