Fragmented funding in the face of rising waiting lists and chronic understaffing has brought the adult social care sector “to its knees”, according to an influential group of MPs.
The general election will end the most turbulent parliament in decades. Public Accounts Committee chair Meg Hillier reflects on the lessons to be learned and what’s to come
Concerns over the pace and fairness of government compensation and financial redress schemes have prompted the Public Accounts Committee to request that the National Audit Office investigate.
The government’s mooted solution to the local audit crisis needs to work, or the Whole of Government Accounts risks being stuck in poor quality for several years, a group of MPs has warned.
The lack of quality procurement data has made it difficult for the government to demonstrate that £259bn spent in 2021-22 delivered value for money, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee...
Insufficient funding for councils and the government’s failure to properly regulate supported housing mean fraud in the sector is going “largely unaddressed”, MPs have warned.
The government will set the “most generous bar” when funding the costs of contingency and reconstruction works for schools affected by RAAC, a senior official has said.
Slow progress in recovering incorrectly paid or fraudulently claimed Covid-19 business grants, could lead to a loss of almost £1bn, parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has warned.
Significant issues in setting up the UK Health Security Agency created a “fundamental absence of governance arrangements and controls”, leaving £3.3bn of medical supplies unaccounted for and drawing...
Long-delayed reforms to modernise courts in England and Wales have placed an “unacceptable” burden on staff and risk making already long case backlogs even longer, MPs have warned.
Any hope of sustainably clearing the huge backlog in local government audit will fail unless the underlying issue of audit resources is fixed, a committee of MPs has said.
Every pound the government spends is worth scrutinising, especially during an emergency such as the pandemic, parliament's Public Accounts Committee chair Meg Hillier writes upon publication of her...
MPs have suggested councils would likely recover more of the business grant funding lost to fraud and error if they were allowed to keep some of the money.
The government has shown “no real signs” of improvements that would prevent it from making the same mistakes that led to £2.2bn of Covid-19 business loans and grants being lost to incorrect or...
Low capacity in council finance teams and the failure to deal with historic accounting issues mean the current September audit deadline is unlikely to be met, local auditors Grant Thornton have...
“Woeful” progress on recovering fraudulent and incorrect claims from Covid-19 job support schemes has left billions of pounds of public money at risk, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
Government plans to join up healthcare services will fail unless long-term issues over funding disparity between the NHS and social care are fixed, MPs have warned.
The failure to replace outdated IT systems is hindering the government’s ability to reduce the costs of managing its extensive estate, MPs have warned.
Local authorities should have more power to build homes to support people most in need, and ministers must avoid targets that focus purely on the number of properties built, MPs have said.
