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Watchdog considers review into Boris Johnson’s 40 ‘new hospitals’ vow

ONE of Boris Johnson’s key election promises is coming under the microscope of the Government’s official spending watchdog.

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson’s pledge to build 40 ‘new hospitals’ faces Watchdog probe

National Audit Office review will consider increasing costs due to spiralling inflation and whether the hospitals will in fact be new

Wales Online

Watchdog to probe Boris Johnson’s 40 ‘new hospitals’ claims

‘The only place these ’40 new hospitals’ currently exist is in Boris Johnson’s imagination,’ says Labour MP

The Independent UK

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Boris Johnson faces investigation into claims over 40 ‘new’ hospitals

Trusts reveal only five wholly new hospitals planned, as Labour says the scheme ‘exists only in PM’s imagination’

The Guardian - UK

UK Infrastructure Bank has £5bn pipeline after investments kick off

National Audit Office chief Gareth Davies said ‘there is more work to do before it is fully operational’.

The Independent UK

UK households will pay £2.7bn to cover cost of failed energy suppliers, says NAO

Watchdog estimates consumers must pay £94 after years of failures by Ofgem

The Independent UK

Failing energy firms will cost UK consumers £2.7bn, says watchdog

National Audit Office accuses Ofgem of creating a market ‘vulnerable to large-scale shocks’

The Guardian - UK

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Energy supplier collapses likely to cost around £2.7bn, report finds

Failures of energy companies were caused by high prices, but were made more likely by regulator Ofgem, the National Audit Office said.

The Independent UK

Government not doing enough to hit 2030 air pollution targets, warns NAO

‘People’s health will suffer’ because government is ‘dragging its feet on tackling air quality,’ Labour MP says

The Independent UK

Brexit has increased risk of dangerous foods reaching UK, watchdog warns

Food Standards Agency is shut out of EU’s ’rapid alert system’ – and faces huge extra costs to build alternative defences

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.

The Independent UK

More than half of children in custody are now from ethnic minority groups and nearly all are boys

The proportion of incarcerated children who come from ethnic minority backgrounds has soared over the past decade.

Wales Online

Number of children in custody in England and Wales set to double by 2024

Report also highlights increasing over-representation of black and minority ethnic children in custody

The Guardian - UK

Number of children in custody set to double by 2024

The National Audit Office report also finds that ethnic minority groups are overrepresented in custody

Wales Online

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The Independent UK

Numbers of children in custody set to double by 2024

The opening of a new secure school has been delayed by three years.

Wales Online

Fight against fly-tipping and illegal waste being hampered by landfill tax and lack of data, says report

UK Government 'does not have the data it needs to assess the scale of waste crime'

The Guardian - UK

Landfill tax rises boosting fly-tipping, says spending watchdog

National Audit Office says tax has increased amount of money criminals can make from waste crime

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

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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 Guardian - UK

Sir Gordon Downey obituary

Senior civil servant and parliamentary commissioner for standards who investigated the ‘cash for questions’ affair

Wales Online

Watchdog highlights 'catalogue of failures' in Covid travel rules for England

There was no system to gauge success of measures such as traffic light system, self-isolation, testing, quarantine hotels or passenger locator forms

The Independent UK

Spending watchdog warns £2.7 billion at risk from government PPE contracts

Chair of public accounts committee says government must ‘get a grip’ of PPE stocks and contracts

The Guardian - UK

1.5bn unused PPE items in England have passed expiry date, says audit office

Report says health department has paid £737m for storage, with 3.6bn items considered unsuitable for frontline use

The Independent UK

Warnings over challenges facing Government plan to hire 20,000 police officers

The Home Office expects to spend £3.6 billion on the recruitment programme up to March 2023.

The Guardian - UK

Matt Hancock failed to disclose messages with Owen Paterson over Covid contracts

Health department did not keep full records of meetings with healthcare firm Paterson lobbied for, NAO finds

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