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Billions of pounds lost to fraud and error during Covid likely to be lost 'forever'

Cross-party MPs on the Public Accounts Committee claim HMRC's attempts to claw back some £2.3 billion incorrectly paid to employers claiming furlough has been 'woeful'

Daily Mirror

Efforts to recoup billions in wrongly claimed furlough cash ‘woeful’, claim MPs

The Public Accounts Committee report on Covid employment support said HMRC was too slow to tackle problems in the design of the schemes.

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Delays in health funding announcements mean local authorities forced to 'take risks' warn health leaders

Health leaders in the North East and beyond have hit out at how long it is taking the Government to tell them how much public health funding councils will get this year

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HS2 timeline: government confirms train will run to London Euston

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that the HS2 train line will continue into the city centre by connecting to London Euston and will not terminate at Old Oak Common – as had been mooted.

Evening Standard

Modern warfare ‘accelerating away’ from MoD due to tech upgrade delays – MPs

The Public Accounts Committee said the department had been ‘struggling for years’ replace some critical IT systems.

The Independent UK

Nadhim Zahawi allows HMRC to pass his tax details to PM’s ethics adviser

Pressure on Tory Party chair increases as HMRC head says no penalties for ‘innocent errors’

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Nadhim Zahawi lets HMRC pass his tax records to Rishi Sunak’s ethics adviser

Pressure on the Tory Party chairman increases as the head of HMRC says there are no penalties for ‘innocent errors’

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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

BBC boss says departure of top presenters amid channel merger is ‘obviously sad’

Tim Davie told the Public Accounts Committee the merger ‘isn’t just digital evangelism’.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson's Olympics plan to get people playing more sport has fallen flat

A devastating report by the Commons spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, says in the three years after Mr Johnson as London mayor put on the 2012 Games participation in sport dropped

Daily Mirror

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)

Randox’s lawyers step up pressure on MPs over ‘misleading’ report

An unpublished legal letter suggested the reliability of the Public Accounts Committee’s report on Randox could be called into question.

The Independent UK

Government agency spent almost £1,500 on branded fidget cubes for civil servants

Labour's Deputy leader Angela Rayner said the Government Property Agency highlighted the spending after a Public Accounts Committee report warned last week the body had been held back by ageing IT systems

Daily Mirror

National Lottery operator refuses to tell Oireachtas Committee how many people were contacted or had their accounts cut off due to overspending

Premier Lotteries Ireland was also criticised for not being able to tell members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) how much money it spent on player welfare

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The Independent UK

Government to miss affordable homes building targets by 32,000

Not enough socially-rented homes are being built to ease the national housing crisis, the Public Accounts Committee has said.

The Independent UK

Government to miss affordable homes building targets by 32,000, MPs say

Not enough socially-rented homes are being built to ease the national housing crisis, the Public Accounts Committee has said.

The National (Scotland)

UK Government under pressure to release Michelle Mone PPE contract papers

A MOTION demanding the UK Government release records of the controversial PPE contract lobbied for by Michelle Mone has passed in the House…

Wales Online

Government not prioritising threat of ‘devastating’ animal diseases, MPs warn

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee warns the UK’s main animal disease facility has been 'left to deteriorate to an alarming extent'

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Brits paying £94 more each on energy bills thanks to Ofgem 'failure', report finds

A report by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee says the energy regulator set the bar too low for new companies to set up as suppliers

Wales Online

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

The Independent UK

Unacceptably high levels of fraud and error in benefits spending, says watchdog

The Department for Work and Pensions overpaid an ‘eye-watering’ £8.6 billion across benefits in 2021-22, the Public Accounts Committee said.

The Independent UK

Consumers at risk due to post-Brexit regulatory system, Commons committee warns

The Commons Public Accounts committee has warned that regulators are ‘struggling to recruit and retain the skills they need to regulate effectively’.

The Independent UK

Red list hotel quarantine subsidised by over £1m a day by taxpayers – and ‘no evidence’ that it worked

One in three travellers who were supposed to be quarantining at home may have breached rules – despite government spending over £100m home visits to check compliance

Wales Online

UK Government 'doesn’t know' if Covid rules on travel, quarantine or home isolation actually worked

A new report published on Tuesday says Westminster is "not learning lessons fast enough from the pandemic and is missing opportunities to react quickly to future emergencies"

Daily Mirror

Government unsure if Covid traffic light system worked despite public disruption

Testing and quarantine requirements changed 10 times between February 2021 and January 2022 but ministers don't know 'whether the system worked or whether the cost was worth the disruption caused', the Public Accounts Committee warned

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