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MPs criticise ‘staggering’ failures at UK Health Security Agency

Damning report highlights lack of spending controls and no stockpile plan for future pandemic at flagship agency set up under Boris Johnson

The Guardian - UK

Health agency unable to prove billions of pounds spent properly, damning report finds

The UK Health Security Agency was launched in 2021 with such poor financial controls that it is unable to prove that billions of pounds were properly spent, MPs have ruled

Daily Mirror

Public confidence in justice system at risk due to delayed reforms, MPs warn

The courts service has almost ‘burnt through’ its entire budget to deliver a programme that is just over halfway complete, Dame Meg Hillier said.

The Independent UK

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MPs warn audit backlog threatens transparency over £100 billion spend

The Public Accounts Committee said the Government must act to prevent further financial failure in local government.

The Independent UK

Alarm raised over ‘worsening’ access to vital NHS care as improvement remains a challenge

National Audit Office warned that improving services could be a ‘significant challenge’

The Independent UK

Alarm sounded over ‘worsening’ access to NHS care when people need it most

The National Audit Office warned that improving services could be a ‘significant challenge’.

The Independent UK

UK government urged to outline plans to help with winter energy bills

Report by cross-party MPs criticises previous ‘lack of urgency in addressing market failures’

The Guardian - UK

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Government failing to tackle alcohol harm, MPs say

Existing data suggests 10 million people in England regularly exceed recommended guidelines on drinking.

The Independent UK

Government took ‘laissez-faire approach’ on multibillion-pound schemes, MPs say

The Public Accounts Committee said the Government was only making ‘slow progress’ in combating fraud in the Bounce Back Loan scheme,

The Independent UK

Britain ‘haven for fraudsters’ as 1% of cases result in charges, say MPs

The ‘Inaction Fraud’ hotline was criticised by MPs

The Independent UK

Three million people suffer driving licence delays since April 2020 – report

MPs say the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s system to process applications is ‘slow, inefficient and in need of major improvement’.

The Independent UK

Thousands of teenagers owed share of huge £394million cash pot - check your eligibility

Around 145,000 young people are entitled to a share of the £394million child trust funds cash pot - which works at an average of £2,717 each, according to the official spending watchdog

Daily Mirror

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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The Independent UK

NHS in ‘full blown crisis’ and will miss targets to cut cancer waiting lists, MPs warn

’The metrics are going in the wrong direction’

Daily Mirror

Young black boys almost THREE times more likely to enter youth justice system

Children from ethnic minority backgrounds make up more than half all children in custody. The proportion has increased from 32% in 2010 to 53% in 2020

The Independent UK

NHS reforms will not work until chronic problems solved, MPs warn

The Government must address severe workforce shortages, record backlogs and a crumbling NHS estate, a Commons committee said.

The Independent UK

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’.

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The Guardian - UK

Braverman, Raab, Zahawi: who’s next in Rish!’s Tory circus of inaction?

Motionless in terror, the PM waits for the onslaught to dematerialise, for crises to pass of their own accord

The National (Scotland)

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.

Daily Mirror

Covid era tax-dodging cost £9BILLION as prosecutions plummeted, watchdog finds

Thousands of staff who usually checked people and businesses were paying the right amount of tax were moved to Covid support schemes - meaning far fewer people were investigated

The Guardian - UK

What is the Tory party’s legacy after so many years in power? Pretty thin gruel

Rishi Sunak is rehearsing reasons for voters to choose his party again with MPs wavering over standing at the next election

The Guardian - UK

UK vulnerable to major animal disease outbreaks, report finds

Inadequate management and under investment in main Animal and Plant Health Agency facility has left country at risk, MPs warn

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

Daily Mirror

Albanian PM blasts Suella Braverman for making citizens scapegoats for UK 'failures'

Edi Rama accused the crisis-hit Home Secretary of 'discriminating' against Albanians and slammed the 'easy rhetoric' of targeting his people for Britain's immigration woes

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