Efforts to recover the £2.3 billion of taxpayer cash wrongly paid to employers claiming Covid furlough support for staff who continued to work has been “woeful” and will fail to deter potential future criminals, MPs have warned.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the Government has had little success recouping the cash, while it blasted the decision to wind up the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce without having recovered the money, saying it put taxpayer cash at risk.
