National Audit Office

Tens of prisoners have been let out without tags due to IT blunders, a report reveals today. Some 35 criminals should have been fitted with tags but were left to roam free in September last year. System failures impacted approximately…

Tory plans to scrap a dedicated cancer strategy is a “catastrophic decision that will cost lives”, experts have warned. In a scathing intervention, two top medics said the move is a sign that the government is not willing to…

The government’s spending watchdog is looking into whether billing taxpayers £220,000 defending Boris Johnson over the Partygate scandal is money well spent. It emerged this week that legal fees had rocketed as the former Prime…

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…

A probe has been launched into the management of a controversial £120 million “festival of Brexit “, which was claimed to have cost the taxpayer £500 per visitor earlier this year. The National Audit Office (NAO) today…