The collapse of a contract worth £800m to provide adult community health services for people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough was rushed into with ‘gross irresponsibility’ and could lead to patient...
The Treasury sold assets of the old Northern Rock bank without a business case, failed to consider the buyer’s tax domicile and ignored a bank’s conflict of interest, according to a review by the...
The government has been told it will need to speed up the disposal of public land if the Whitehall target to free up capacity for at least 160,000 new homes by 2020 is to be met.
The government has made only limited progress in cutting the cost of regulation to businesses, despite a pledge to reduce the burden by £10bn to 2020, MPs have said.
The government does not understand the difficulties faced by many schools in recruiting teachers and should undertake an urgent review of teacher training to boost numbers, the Public Accounts...
The ability of parliament to scrutinise public spending is being hindered by growing numbers of devolution deals and increasing use of outsourcing for public services, a report by the Public Accounts...
Value for money for international aid spending is often undermined by deficiencies in the United Nations system, a review by the UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has found.
MPs have criticised the lack of government action to encourage and support whistleblowers in Whitehall and urged the Cabinet Office to do more to create the right environment for people to come...
The government’s controversial £130m tax deal with Google seems “disproportionately small” when compared with the size of the firm’s UK business, an examination by the...
The Public Accounts Committee has today criticised the Department of Health and NHS England for prevailing weaknesses and inconsistencies in diabetes services.
MPs have called on water industry regulator Ofwat to improve its understanding of the taxes paid by companies in the sector after concluding that over-estimation of costs had led to higher bills for...
The Care Quality Commission remains an ineffective regulator despite efforts to implement significant reforms since 2013, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has warned that the government’s use of the new burdens doctrine, which is intended to ensure councils are not left out of pocket, “fails to reflect reality...
A government target to build over 100,000 homes on public land represented “wishful thinking dressed up as public policy”, the Public Accounts Committee has said today, and ministers have no record...
There has been a “significant failure” by the Home Office to provide police forces with the support they need to maintain services amid budget cuts, the Public Accounts Committee has warned today.
Meg Hillier takes charge of the Public Accounts Committee vowing to present the day-to-day reality of her constituents’ lives to the officials who spend their money
The new chair of the Public Accounts Committee has said the watchdog will scrutinise departmental plans after November’s Spending Review in an effort to tackle so-called cost shunting across the...
The government’s ‘lax approach’ to the regulation of private higher education has led to almost £4m in public money being given to ineligible European students in loans and grants, the Public...
MPs have accused PwC of ‘nothing short of the promotion of tax avoidance on an industrial scale’ after examining the role of large accountancy firms in advising multinational how to minimise...
Whitehall incentives for local authorities to tackle Housing Benefit fraud and error are weak and being compounded by cuts in funding available to councils to administer it, the Public Accounts...
Government outsourcing deals for public services are in ‘crisis’ as contractors have not shown appropriate duty of care for public money and Whitehall departments have not managed the arrangements...
The straight-talking chair of the Public Accounts Committee is well known for taking no prisoners in pursuit of the public pound. She talks to PF about going after tax dodgers, how to take on Ukip...
