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Agency responsible for Test and Trace programme scolded for accounting failings

Public Accounts Committee chairwoman Dame Meg Hillier said the lack of clarity over the UKHSA’s finances were ‘astonishing and unacceptable’.

The Independent UK

Braverman, Raab, Zahawi: who’s next in Rish!’s Tory circus of inaction?

Motionless in terror, the PM waits for the onslaught to dematerialise, for crises to pass of their own accord

The Guardian - UK

Delays to Westminster renovation costing £2.5 million per week

DELAYS to the renovation of Westminster are costing £2.5 million per week, according to the chair of the Public Accounts Committee.

The National (Scotland)

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Covid era tax-dodging cost £9BILLION as prosecutions plummeted, watchdog finds

Thousands of staff who usually checked people and businesses were paying the right amount of tax were moved to Covid support schemes - meaning far fewer people were investigated

Daily Mirror

What is the Tory party’s legacy after so many years in power? Pretty thin gruel

Rishi Sunak is rehearsing reasons for voters to choose his party again with MPs wavering over standing at the next election

The Guardian - UK

UK vulnerable to major animal disease outbreaks, report finds

Inadequate management and under investment in main Animal and Plant Health Agency facility has left country at risk, MPs warn

The Guardian - UK

New driving licence applications have taken over a year for 90,000 people

DVLA have struggled with the backlog caused by Covid, as those with medical conditions have been kept in limbo

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Albanian PM blasts Suella Braverman for making citizens scapegoats for UK 'failures'

Edi Rama accused the crisis-hit Home Secretary of 'discriminating' against Albanians and slammed the 'easy rhetoric' of targeting his people for Britain's immigration woes

Daily Mirror

Scowling Suella Braverman told she's 'broken the law' in furious PMQs attacks

Rishi Sunak battled to defend Suella Braverman, who he reappointed as Home Secretary only six days after she was forced to resign for a serious breach of ministerial rules.

Daily Mirror

Randox lawyers demand MPs retract ‘defamatory’ report on Covid contracts

Schillings says Randox was ‘ambushed’ by ‘inaccurate’ and ‘misleading’ allegations, as it had not been given ‘reasonable’ chance to comment.

The Independent UK

Affordable homes ‘depressingly unattainable’ and attempts to fix housing crisis ‘not good enough’, say MPs

Fewer homes could be completed than currently forecast because of building cost inflation and shortages of materials and labour, National Audit Office warns

The Independent UK

Home Office faces challenges in meeting target on police numbers, MPs warn

The effort to hire another 6,500 officers by next March could be hampered by a tight labour market and decline in trust in policing, a committee said.

The Independent UK

Britain’s Notre Dame? Why MPs need to solve the Houses of Parliament problem

The renovation of the Palace of Westminster has foundered amid soaring cost projections, infighting and safety fears. Can anyone find a way forward?

The Guardian - UK

Parliament restoration plan ‘unacceptably slow’ and untransparent – committee

It is ‘inconceivable’ that the Palace should be allowed to deteriorate further and MPs are put in danger, the Public Accounts Committee chair said.

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The Independent UK

Government accused by MPs of squandering billions of pounds on ‘levelling up’

The Public Affairs Committee has accused the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities of unfairly allocating funding.

The Independent UK

Covid fraud losses could top £4.9bn after swindlers given ‘open goal’, MPs warn

Goverment urged to explain exactly how it plans to recover funds

The Independent UK

Government must do everything in its power to reduce Covid loan fraud hit – MPs

Nearly £5 billion might be lost to fraud and error in the Covid support schemes for businesses.

The Independent UK

UK forced to bridge data gap after losing full access to EU food alerts – report

Regulators say loss of data sharing arrangements after Brexit has negatively impacted their ability to carry out their work, the NAO has warned.

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The Independent UK

Britain’s armed forces lack ‘battle-winning capabilities’, MPs warn

Commons Public Accounts Committee said the invasion of Ukraine highlighted the ‘risks and responsibilities’ of Nato membership.

The Guardian - UK

Fraud in Covid bounceback loan scheme not being addressed, say MPs

Public accounts committee say government must devote more resources to recovering nearly £5bn

The Independent UK

Government showed ‘disregard’ to taxpayer over Covid loans, MPs say

Public Accounts Committee chairwoman Meg Hillier MP said the Government has no long-term plans to chase overdue debt.

Daily Mirror

State pensioners underpaid by £1billion being 'cut off' by DWP call centre staff

The DWP estimates it has underpaid 134,000 pensioners, mostly women, over £1billion of their state pension entitlement, with some errors dating as far back as 1985 - but some are struggling to get that money back

The Guardian - UK

UK quarantine hotels cost taxpayer £400m, watchdog finds

National Audit Office reveals losses in report on how UK managed cross-border travel during Covid pandemic

The Independent UK

Covid travel rules that cost £486m in taxpayers’ money were imposed without overall assessment

The National Audit Office urged the Government to learn lessons in case travel restrictions need to be reintroduced

The Independent UK

Safe housing ‘too often out of reach’ for private renters, MPs warn

Local authorities face a ‘fragmented and disempowered’ regulatory system, made worse by ‘piecemeal’ interventions, according to a report.

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