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Public spending watchdog to investigate £120m ‘festival of Brexit’

Festival’s design and execution ‘has been an unadulterated shambles,’ MP says

The Independent UK

Audit launched into £120 million 'Festival of Brexit' which 'cost £500 per visitor'

The National Audit Office (NAO) today announces it is investigating the Unboxed Festival, which was branded an "irresponsible use of public money" by MPs

Daily Mirror

Watchdog investigating £120m Festival of Brexit after just 1% of crowd turns up

Boris Johnson branded the year-long event Unboxed: Creativity in the UK

Wales Online

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Public spending watchdog to investigate ‘festival of Brexit’

NAO to examine £120m Unboxed project after MPs call it an ‘irresponsible use of public money’

The Guardian - UK

Spending watchdog to probe £120m ‘festival of Brexit’ amid concerns taxpayer cash was ‘frittered away’

Festival’s design and execution ‘has been an unadulterated shambles,’ MP says

The Independent UK

Public spending watchdog to investigate so-called ‘festival of Brexit’

The Government invested £120 million in the event, which has been described as an ‘unadulterated shambles’.

The Independent UK

Affordable homes ‘depressingly unattainable’ and attempts to fix housing crisis ‘not good enough’, say MPs

Fewer homes could be completed than currently forecast because of building cost inflation and shortages of materials and labour, National Audit Office warns

The Independent UK

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DWP confirm which women over State Pension age are due up to £9,500 in backdated payments

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has now estimated that it has underpaid at least 237,000 pensioners, in a whopping total cost of 1.46 billion pounds.

Edinburgh Live

DWP: 6 groups of women over State Pension age could be due payments worth up to £9,500

Around 237,000 people over State Pension age have been underpaid

Nottingham Post

Six groups of women over State Pension age may be due up to £9,500 in backdated payments

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

Daily Record

DWP: Thousands claiming Attendance Allowance could be due a benefits windfall due to under-payments

A National Audit Office report suggest thousands could be due extra money from the DWP.

Chronicle Live

Women over State Pension age urged to check if they are eligible for backdated payments

Six groups of women over the State Pension age may be eligible for money amid backdated payments after a report by the DWP revealed many have have been underpaid.

Edinburgh Live

DWP State Pension claimants could be due up to £9,500 in back payments

According to a new report by the National Audit Office on the Department for Work and Pensions, six groups of State Pension claimants could be due money back from the UK Government

Glasgow Live

DWP reveal six groups may be eligible for thousands in backdated pension payments

The Department for Work and Pensions predict that some 237,000 over the age of State Pension may have been underpaid

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Six groups of pensioners may be in line for thousands in backdated payments

The DWP estimates around 237,000 people over State Pension age have been underpaid

Daily Record

Six groups of women over State Pension age who may be due up to £9,500 in backdated payments

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

Glasgow Live

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

Daily Mirror

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

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The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Record

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.

Wales Online

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'

The Independent UK

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.

Daily Mirror

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

The National (Scotland)

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.

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