National Audit Office - Definition and Overview

The National Audit Office building, built originally as the Imperial Airways Empire Terminal. The statue, "Speed Wings over the World" is by Eric Broadbent"

The National Audit Office (NAO) is an agency based in the UK, independent of the government. The role of the NAO is 'to audit the accounts of all government departments and agencies as well as a wide range of other public bodies, and report to Parliament on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which government bodies have used public money.'

The Auditor General and Comptroller is Sir John Bourn. The NAO currently occupies buildings on Buckingham Palace Road, near Victoria railway station in London, built originally for Imperial Airways as their "Empire Terminal".

External links

• National Audit Office (http://www.nao.org.uk)

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