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Over 60,000 DWP Attendance Allowance claimants could be due money back

According to new research about the Department for Work and Pensions, approximately £230 million of the Attendance Allowance benefit has been underpaid to claimants

Glasgow Live

Extra 100,000 state pensioners underpaid due to DWP mistake - does it affect you?

A DWP mistake means that 237,000 people have been underpaid their State Pension to the tune of £1.5billion, new figures reveal - but the problem could be even bigger than that

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson’s downfall: a corrosive culture of cronyism

Analysis: Partygate was the last straw, but the long view of history will count a broader catalogue of corruption

The Guardian - UK

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State Pension underpayments review identifies new group of women who may be due up to £9,500

The DWP now estimates it has underpaid 237,000 pensioners a total of £1.46 billion.

Daily Record

DWP says 237,000 Brits were underpaid state pensions to tune of £1.46bn

'We are fully committed to addressing these errors, not identified under previous governments, as quickly as possible'

Wales Online

2012 Olympic Games did not boost grassroots sports ‘as hoped’ – NAO

Ministers said the Games would leave a ‘lasting sporting legacy’.

The Independent UK

Watchdog: About 237,000 state pensioners underpaid by total of £1.46bn

The Department for Work and Pensions started an exercise in January 2021 to address cases where people were being underpaid.

The Independent UK

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Boris Johnson's 40 'new' hospitals election boast to be probed by audit watchdog

The National Audit Office will carry out a 'value for money' review that reports back next year on spiralling inflation - and whether the 40 projects are really 'new' at all

Daily Mirror

Watchdog considers review into Boris Johnson’s 40 ‘new hospitals’ vow

ONE of Boris Johnson’s key election promises is coming under the microscope of the Government’s official spending watchdog.

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson’s pledge to build 40 ‘new hospitals’ faces Watchdog probe

National Audit Office review will consider increasing costs due to spiralling inflation and whether the hospitals will in fact be new

Wales Online

Watchdog to probe Boris Johnson’s 40 ‘new hospitals’ claims

‘The only place these ’40 new hospitals’ currently exist is in Boris Johnson’s imagination,’ says Labour MP

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson faces investigation into claims over 40 ‘new’ hospitals

Trusts reveal only five wholly new hospitals planned, as Labour says the scheme ‘exists only in PM’s imagination’

The Guardian - UK

UK Infrastructure Bank has £5bn pipeline after investments kick off

National Audit Office chief Gareth Davies said ‘there is more work to do before it is fully operational’.

The Independent UK

UK households will pay £2.7bn to cover cost of failed energy suppliers, says NAO

Watchdog estimates consumers must pay £94 after years of failures by Ofgem

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Failing energy firms will cost UK consumers £2.7bn, says watchdog

National Audit Office accuses Ofgem of creating a market ‘vulnerable to large-scale shocks’

The Independent UK

Energy supplier collapses likely to cost around £2.7bn, report finds

Failures of energy companies were caused by high prices, but were made more likely by regulator Ofgem, the National Audit Office said.

The Independent UK

Government not doing enough to hit 2030 air pollution targets, warns NAO

‘People’s health will suffer’ because government is ‘dragging its feet on tackling air quality,’ Labour MP says

The Independent UK

Brexit has increased risk of dangerous foods reaching UK, watchdog warns

Food Standards Agency is shut out of EU’s ’rapid alert system’ – and faces huge extra costs to build alternative defences

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The Independent UK

UK forced to bridge data gap after losing full access to EU food alerts – report

Regulators say loss of data sharing arrangements after Brexit has negatively impacted their ability to carry out their work, the NAO has warned.

Wales Online

More than half of children in custody are now from ethnic minority groups and nearly all are boys

The proportion of incarcerated children who come from ethnic minority backgrounds has soared over the past decade.

The Guardian - UK

Number of children in custody in England and Wales set to double by 2024

Report also highlights increasing over-representation of black and minority ethnic children in custody

Wales Online

Number of children in custody set to double by 2024

The National Audit Office report also finds that ethnic minority groups are overrepresented in custody

The Independent UK

Numbers of children in custody set to double by 2024

The opening of a new secure school has been delayed by three years.

Wales Online

Fight against fly-tipping and illegal waste being hampered by landfill tax and lack of data, says report

UK Government 'does not have the data it needs to assess the scale of waste crime'

The Guardian - UK

Landfill tax rises boosting fly-tipping, says spending watchdog

National Audit Office says tax has increased amount of money criminals can make from waste crime

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