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Government accounts less reliable due to long delays, MPs warn

Long delays in publishing Government accounts have reduced their value and transparency, MPs have said. The influential Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) criticised the Treasury for releasing the 2019-20 Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) 26 ...

14 Oct 2022 at 08:33

New Covid corruption chief to leave ‘no stone unturned’, Reeves warns

The newly-appointed Covid corruption commissioner will “leave no stone unturned” as he investigates a “carnival of fraud”, Rachel Reeves has said. Tom Hayhoe, a health policy expert, has been appointed to to claw back taxpayers’ money wasted on ...

03 Dec 2024 at 13:08

Musk must defend his own actions, No 10 says, following straight-arm gesture

Elon Musk must defend his own actions, Downing Street said, after the tech billionaire made a gesture widely interpreted as a Nazi salute during a rally for new US President Donald Trump. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said Sir Keir ...

22 Jan 2025 at 14:10

MPs warn public sector accounts were undermined by local audit backlog

Unreliable data in government accounts has resulted in income and debt being overstated by tens of billions of pounds while undermining transparency and financial oversight, it has emerged. A report on the whole of government accounts (WGA) ...

19 Mar 2025 at 08:54

Fact check: NHS appointments rise hailed by government is smaller than last year

This roundup of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity, working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. New data obtained by Full Fact reveals that a 3.6 million rise in the number ...

23 May 2025 at 16:58

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