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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’.

The Independent UK

BBC boss says departure of top presenters amid channel merger is ‘obviously sad’

Tim Davie told the Public Accounts Committee the merger ‘isn’t just digital evangelism’.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson's Olympics plan to get people playing more sport has fallen flat

A devastating report by the Commons spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, says in the three years after Mr Johnson as London mayor put on the 2012 Games participation in sport dropped

Daily Mirror

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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.

The National (Scotland)

Randox’s lawyers step up pressure on MPs over ‘misleading’ report

An unpublished legal letter suggested the reliability of the Public Accounts Committee’s report on Randox could be called into question.

The Independent UK

Government agency spent almost £1,500 on branded fidget cubes for civil servants

Labour's Deputy leader Angela Rayner said the Government Property Agency highlighted the spending after a Public Accounts Committee report warned last week the body had been held back by ageing IT systems

Daily Mirror

National Lottery operator refuses to tell Oireachtas Committee how many people were contacted or had their accounts cut off due to overspending

Premier Lotteries Ireland was also criticised for not being able to tell members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) how much money it spent on player welfare

Irish Mirror

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Government to miss affordable homes building targets by 32,000

Not enough socially-rented homes are being built to ease the national housing crisis, the Public Accounts Committee has said.

The Independent UK

Government to miss affordable homes building targets by 32,000, MPs say

Not enough socially-rented homes are being built to ease the national housing crisis, the Public Accounts Committee has said.

The Independent UK

UK Government under pressure to release Michelle Mone PPE contract papers

A MOTION demanding the UK Government release records of the controversial PPE contract lobbied for by Michelle Mone has passed in the House…

The National (Scotland)

Government not prioritising threat of ‘devastating’ animal diseases, MPs warn

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee warns the UK’s main animal disease facility has been 'left to deteriorate to an alarming extent'

Wales Online

Brits paying £94 more each on energy bills thanks to Ofgem 'failure', report finds

A report by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee says the energy regulator set the bar too low for new companies to set up as suppliers

Daily Mirror

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

Wales Online

Unacceptably high levels of fraud and error in benefits spending, says watchdog

The Department for Work and Pensions overpaid an ‘eye-watering’ £8.6 billion across benefits in 2021-22, the Public Accounts Committee said.

The Independent UK

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Consumers at risk due to post-Brexit regulatory system, Commons committee warns

The Commons Public Accounts committee has warned that regulators are ‘struggling to recruit and retain the skills they need to regulate effectively’.

The Independent UK

Red list hotel quarantine subsidised by over £1m a day by taxpayers – and ‘no evidence’ that it worked

One in three travellers who were supposed to be quarantining at home may have breached rules – despite government spending over £100m home visits to check compliance

Wales Online

UK Government 'doesn’t know' if Covid rules on travel, quarantine or home isolation actually worked

A new report published on Tuesday says Westminster is "not learning lessons fast enough from the pandemic and is missing opportunities to react quickly to future emergencies"

Daily Mirror

Government unsure if Covid traffic light system worked despite public disruption

Testing and quarantine requirements changed 10 times between February 2021 and January 2022 but ministers don't know 'whether the system worked or whether the cost was worth the disruption caused', the Public Accounts Committee warned

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The Independent UK

One-third of all police in England and Wales to be inexperienced constables on probation because of 20,000 uplift

MP’s warn Boris Johnson’s pledge has ‘focused on entry level officers rather than those with experience’

The National (Scotland)

Fraud, waste, and unlawful 'VIPs': Report lays bare Tory 'incompetence' over PPE

UK taxpayers will be footing the bill for mistakes the Tory government made during the pandemic “for years to come”, the chair of a…

Evening Standard

Covid: Three million UK adults still unvaccinated

Nearly three million adults in England remain unvaccinated against Covid, according to the latest figures.

Wales Online

More than 200,000 people have now died with Covid in the UK

It comes amid a new push to get people vaccinated as infection rates surge again

Manchester Evening News

Nearly 3 MILLION people not vaccinated against Covid amid warning 'pandemic is not over'

A government committee is calling for increased efforts to get those in vulnerable groups fully vaccinated as infection rates continue to rise again

Wales Online

Government report calls for NHS to ‘redouble’ efforts to vaccinate vulnerable

Public Accounts Committee looking to reduce the number of unvaccinated adults in England from three million to 2.5 million

The Independent UK

Government has ‘no evidence’ hundreds of billions of pounds spend works

The Commons Public Accounts Committee said that Government activity is not being evaluated ‘robustly or at all’.

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