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Annual Report and Accounts 2008-09

The Annual Report and Accounts records both the performance and the financial situation of the Department over the financial year. The Department has published a combined Annual Report and Accounts since 2006-07, bringing together the previously separate Departmental Report and Consolidated Resource Accounts. It is published each July.

Full report

Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform annual report and accounts 2008-09 [HC 447] (PDF, 1845KB)

Preliminaries

  • Contents
  • Foreword from the Secretary of State
  • Executive summary
  • About this report

BERR annual report and accounts 2008-09 - preliminaries (PDF, 146KB)

Executive summary

BERR annual report and accounts 2008-09 - executive summary (PDF, 34KB)

Chapter 1: Introducing the Department

  • 1.1: The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
  • 1.2: Ministerial responsibilities
  • 1.3: Strategy and objectives

BERR annual report and accounts 2008-09 - chapter 1 (PDF, 121KB)

Chapter 2: Performance report

  • 2.1: Introduction
  • 2.2: BERR’s performance framework
  • 2.3: Raising the productivity of the UK economy
  • 2.4: Creation and growth of business
  • 2.5: Better regulation
  • 2.6: Free and fair markets
  • 2.7: Government as a shareholder
  • 2.8: Providing professional support, capability and infrastructure

BERR annual report and accounts 2008-09 - chapter 2 (PDF, 601KB)

Chapter 3: Managing the Department

  • 3.1: Introduction
  • 3.2: Professional support, capability and infrastructure
  • 3.3: Value for money programmes
  • 3.4: Better BERR regulation
  • 3.5: Promoting equality of opportunity
  • 3.6: Corporate governance arrangements
  • 3.7: Remuneration report

BERR annual report and accounts 2008-09 - chapter 3 (PDF, 235KB)

Chapter 4: Financial Overview

  • 4.1: About the financial information in this report
  • 4.2: The resources available to the Department
  • 4.3 Reconciling Estimates, Budgets and Resource Accounts
  • 4.4 Financial review

BERR annual report and accounts 2008-09 - chapter 4 (PDF, 123KB)

Chapter 5: Resource Accounts

  • 5.1 Statement of Accounting Officer’s responsibilities
  • 5.2 Statement on internal control
  • 5.3 Certificate and report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
  • 5.4 Primary statements
  • 5.5 Notes to the accounts

BERR annual report and accounts 2008-09 - chapter 5 (PDF, 529KB)

Annexes

  • A.1 Quality of DSO and PSA data systems
  • A.2 PSAs remaining from previous spending reviews
  • A.3 Delivery partners
  • A.4 Environmental sustainability
  • A.5 Health and safety report
  • A.6 Public Accounts Committee (PAC) reports
  • A.7 Complaints to the Department
  • A.8 Expenditure tables
  • Acronyms
  • Glossary
  • Index

BERR annual report and accounts 2008-09 - annexes (PDF, 244KB)