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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Tom Knowles

Ditched government projects lost taxpayer £6.6bn last year, watchdog says

A man raises his finger at a protest outside court surrounded by people holding signs saying Stop Rwanda and similar
A 2022 protest in London over the Rwanda deportation scheme. The spending watchdog said successive governments had cancelled projects only after spending significant sums on them. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Alamy

Cancelled government projects such as the Rwanda deportation scheme and the road tunnel under Stonehenge are wasting billions of pounds of taxpayer money a year, parliament’s spending watchdog has found.

About £6.6bn was written off by government departments last year alone – state spending that did not achieve its intended objectives or create any value for the taxpayer, the public accounts committee said.

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