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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
August Graham

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

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The head of an influential group of MPs has said that the Government left the goal open to fraudsters when it designed the multibillion-pound support for businesses during the pandemic.

Dame Meg Hillier, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee, said that several billion had been added to “taxpayer woes” due to the Government-sponsored loan schemes.

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