It is also scathing about the Cabinet Office and says it has not done enough to improve the core professional skills in government despite repeated recommendations by the public accounts committee in its reports published in 2002 and 2007, and the Cabinet Office's own report in 1994.
The repeated recommendations of international organizations, and the occasional official reports recommending outsourcing and outpatient services, also served as focuses.
In June, the European Council's Committee for the Prevention of Torture issued a report, saying that its repeated recommendations since 1997 to improve the conditions of migrant detention have been "largely ignored by the Greek authorities".
Despite unanimous and repeated recommendations it was not until January 2016 that the family were reunited.
The alternative minimum tax remains in effect even though there seems to be bipartisan agreement that it is an abomination, and despite repeated recommendations that it be abolished or substantially reformed.
The prison service ombudsman Nigel Newcomen told the Guardian his repeated recommendations to help save lives were being ignored, and said the scale of self-inflicted deaths was "utterly unacceptable" and reflected a "rising tide of despair".
Despite the often-repeated recommendations to incorporate multidisciplinary healthcare teams in chronic disease care, access to allied health services is usually limited in a developing country like Malaysia.
The oft-repeated recommendation that you should never smile in the first two months of the school year is hogwash.
Motion-sensitive lights are another oft-repeated recommendation that I had ignored, mostly because I would rather be burglarized than attempt electrical work.
For instance, the oft-repeated recommendation to change a car's oil every 3,000 miles just doesn't apply to most vehicles anymore.
