The technology has already recouped hundreds of millions of pounds and could be extended right across Government, according to a new report by the National Audit Office
Nearly ten times as many entered the UK under under Brexiters’ unvetted skilled worker visa scheme as arrived in small boats
Huge sums of money have yet to be returned by businesses five years after the last Conservative Government’s Covid ‘bounce back’ loan scheme was launched
An ageing population and successive cuts by the last Conservative Government have left local council budgets on the brink, reports David Hencke
A damning new parliamentary report warns that “the site is becoming increasingly unsafe” due to the delays
A National Audit Office report reveals nearly 50,000 unresolved family court cases in England, with some children waiting more than two years due to chronic delays, rising costs and fragmented oversight
Reduced budgets, rising online hate and the lack of an effective national strategy, are deepening the threat faced by women and girls, warn MPs
Successive UK Governments have refused to pursue prosecutions against those suspected of war crimes abroad
Risky ‘legacy’ IT systems make up 28% of the public sector’s IT estate
Despite the new Government giving teachers a 5.5% pay rise last year – pay is still one of the key reasons for recruitment failures, the Department for Education said
MPs point to the ‘direct conflict’ for permanent secretary of department and the huge sums given to professional rugby clubs
Repeated promises to clean up the scandal of homes covered in highly dangerous flammable cladding are still not being met, warn MPs
The crisis followed the last Conservative Government’s failure to fulfil its promise to build up to 20,000 more prisons places before leaving office
Ten complainants, including doctors and a nuclear whistleblower, claim judge displayed misogynistic behaviour in employment tribunals – but judicial regulator refuses to investigate
A new parliamentary investigation details the many billions of pounds wasted on a scheme, the exact future of which still remains in doubt, reports David Hencke
The man was repeatedly threatened by debt collectors due to the scam, which followed a change in the law by the last Conservative Government
It blows a hole in the party’s claim to have ‘fixed the roof while the sun is shining’
There is a looming crisis of growing special needs requirements and threatened council bankruptcies, according to a damning new report by MPs
Just 5% of the additional prison places promised by Conservative ministers in 2016 have been delivered
Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation’s accounts
Conservative ministers purchased the contaminated land and asbestos-ridden buildings, despite warnings from officials
A damning new report highlights a series of failures under the last Conservative Government
A damning new report exposes the scandalously slow pace of removing all the flammable cladding still wrapped around thousands of flats across the UK
A damning new Parliamentary report warns that the UK’s broken approach to food has created a “public health emergency”
The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that 24 projects in the prison service have been halted, and two schemes involving new courts were affected
The plan could reduce pollution, create jobs, reduce imports, while also helping the UK meet its net zero targets
“‘Lessons learned’ is an entirely vacuous phrase if lessons aren’t being learned” warns new report after a series of deadly warnings were ignored
A damning new report reveals growing numbers of small businesses and retail outlets have used a series of scams to evade paying tax
Lord Carlile wants the memorial to be moved away from Parliament. Since it was originally proposed costs have almost tripled
Councils are struggling to cope with a huge rise in demand while standards in reading, writing, and mathematics have either stagnated or fallen during the past decade
‘There has been a lack of sustained progress by government in reducing the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers’, a new report by the National Audit Office has found
A damning first report from the COVID Inquiry reveals how three successive Health and Social Care Secretaries failed to put a plan in place to handle the crisis that struck
Ministers and civil servants condemned for lack of transparency and accountability with no one able to show actions “taken to hold leadership accountable”
When he moved to England age 13 he couldn’t read and left school with few qualifications. But the work ethic he adopted from his mum saw him become a successful businessman
The Government has spent £310 million on the Rwanda scheme – and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says there will be no flights before polling day – meaning they may never happen
Over 7000 people applied for the upgraded £7500 grant to scrap their gas boiler and replace it with a heat pump in the South East compared to just over 1,000 in the North East
National Audit Office figures show MoJ way off target of reducing court case backlog by more than 14,000 cases and more than 6,000 are two years or more old
No final date has been set for when ‘the most effective border in the world’ will be fully operational, according to a new report by the National Audit Office
David Hencke examines a National Audit Office report revealing HMRC has not done enough to raise awareness of its digital services
A new report has found the ministry spends £3 billion a year on maternity services but paid out an ‘eye-watering’ £1.1 billion in claims for 2022-23
Serco and G4S overcharged the Ministry of Justice for the same service – then the MOJ tried to hide from the House of Lords that it gave both firms new contracts