Meg Hillier

Labour has vowed to "make working people better off" with tens of thousands of new jobs in industrial heartlands decimated by the Tories. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out details of Labour's promise to bring in a jobs…

Only 10% of promised Levelling Up funds have truly been spent and are making a distinction to communities, a damning report has discovered. Dame Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, mentioned the degrees of delay within the…

The HS2 rail line will provide “very poor value for money” after Rishi Sunak cancelled the northern leg, MPs have warned. The PM was accused of betraying the North after he scrapped the proposed excessive velocity rail line from…

Tetchy Rishi Sunak was requested if he lies awake worrying in regards to the poor as he was grilled about baby poverty right this moment.The Prime Minister is showing earlier than the Commons Liaison Committee, whose members chair…

Education chiefs have no idea the chance posed by asbestos in virtually 1,000 faculties, MPs have warned.The Public Accounts Committee discovered 700,000 pupils are studying in faculties that want main rebuilding or refurbishment. It warned…

Young black boys are almost three times as likely to enter the youth justice system than their peers, a damning report reveals. While the number of children in youth custody across all ethnicities fell by 73% from 2010-11 to 2020-21, the…

The aim of the £8.8billion London Olympics championed by Boris Johnson to get more people playing sport has fallen flat, say MPs. A devastating report by the Commons spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, says in the three years…

Tory welfare chiefs are blasted today for record fraud and errors that have cost taxpayers billions – and short-changed pensioners in “severe hardship”. The Department for Work and Pensions was told to “get a grip”…

Fraud and error in the government’s Covid job support schemes cost the taxpayer a staggering £4.5 billion, a new report by the public spending watchdog shows. The National Audit Office said that while the pandemic measures protected…