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Damning report by MPs urges departments to ensure more ‘robust’ competition for contracts
Public accounts committee cites ‘extreme concerns’ over scheme beset by spiralling costs and inflation
Public accounts committee criticises ‘unacceptable costs’ and ‘lack of safeguards’ in cutting UK claims backlog
Ministers told to get a grip on oversight after MPs finds huge backlog of unaudited accounts
Government criticised over delays and ministers’ ‘lack of urgency’ to reform market
Home Office slammed as ‘sluggish and outmanoeuvred’ on launch of new economic crime plan
MPs accuse lender of lacking ‘strategic vision’ of where to target investment
Public accounts committee report concludes that promise to ‘lead by example’ on net zero is not being met
Public accounts committee says ministers ‘retrofitted’ criteria for winning bids to £4.8bn scheme to cut regional inequalities
Spending watchdog accuses government over £1bn in underpayments to 134,000 mostly female pensioners
UK government lays ground for years of travel restrictions and contact tracing
Audit office says government’s strategy risks smaller fraudsters escaping unpunished
Tackling delays poses ‘huge and lengthy’ challenge for health service, says audit office
Spending watchdog claims the MoD ‘continually fails to learn from its mistakes’
Senior civil servant Tom Scholar tells MPs he received phone call and texts from former PM
‘Unimaginable’ level of spending made no ‘measurable difference’ to spread of virus, report finds
PAC rebukes government for failing to show how it will achieve climate change goals
Scathing Commons report says decisions based on ‘anecdote, assumption and prejudice’
Tax authority will not fine mistaken claims but is pursuing 27,000 ‘high-risk’ cases, chief tells MPs
Policy costs £38bn a year and government does not know if it works, says public accounts committee
Handling of claims of English test cheating under fire after spending watchdog’s report
Report also expresses concern about quality of training
National Audit Office report spurs MPs’ warning on failure to manage impact of cuts
Audit office attacks shake-up for causing clearance backlog and extra costs
Business goes to Staffline for £1 just weeks after Stonebridge deal
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