Despite a government pledge to slash the administrative burden on businesses, many continue to find the UK’s regulatory landscape burdensome, complex, and difficult to navigate, a Public Accounts...
The absence of a credible spending plan for military equipment is pushing up costs and undermining the government’s credibility with its allies, a report from the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
Attempts by the government to stem huge losses due to fraud at the Ministry of Defence are falling woefully short, the Public Accounts Committee has warned, after it emerged that the department has...
The Public Accounts Committee has said the government can and must do better after it emerged that close to £7bn of spending was written off by the 17 main government departments in 2024-25 for not...
The beleaguered HS2 project faces further scrutiny following the government announcement that the railway line will not open for at least a decade at a revised cost of up to £102.7bn.
The Public Accounts Committee has called for an annual progress report to parliament about the government’s programme to strip out unsafe concrete in hospitals, after it emerged that timeframes are...
Inadequate digital leadership and fragmented data are thwarting efforts to tackle fraud and error across government, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
A Public Accounts Committee report has cast doubt on a government pledge to halve the amount it spends on consultants, after warning that departments are failing to comply with the Cabinet Office...
Probation services in England and Wales are on the brink of collapse, seriously impeding their ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending rates, a report from the Public Accounts Committee...
Delays and poor service overseen by the Department for Work and Pensions are combining to push vulnerable people into poverty while they wait for payments, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
A scathing Public Accounts Committee report has criticised the Ministry of Justice for significant contract management failings after it emerged the MoJ was spending £4m a year on an empty prison...
Outdated IT systems and a lack of common data standards are hampering efforts to understand the costs of public services, according to a report from the Public Accounts Committee that calls for a...
The Treasury’s approach to setting and charging fees for public services is creating “large and unfair surpluses and deficits for the taxpayer”, a report from the Public Accounts Committee has...
The Department for Work and Pensions will next month launch a new campaign – Tell DWP – to encourage benefits claimants to update the department with personal circumstances as it continues in its...
Funding for bus services has been “short-term, fragmented and poorly targeted”, hindering investment in the sector, according to a cross-party group of MPs.
Local government reorganisation risks exacerbating the “immense” financial strain under which councils are already operating, according to the chair of an influential parliamentary committee.
Communities are not receiving sufficient benefits from housing developers’ Section 106 contributions, with a large but unclear number of affordable homes sitting empty, MPs have found.
The government risks further high-profile infrastructure failures if critical schemes are excluded from plans to strengthen the governance of mega-projects, an influential group of MPs has warned.
The government’s major infrastructure ambitions risk being derailed by the absence of a credible pipeline of projects, an influential group of MPs has warned.
The government does not know how much tax is paid – or avoided – by the nation’s wealthiest individuals, squandering significant opportunities to collect more revenue, a group of MPs has warned.
Government changes to the immigration system risk exposing migrant workers to exploitation, as well as encouraging more people to break visa rules, a report has warned.
Hundreds of councils face financial precarity and the government is finally running out of time to do something about it, an influential group of MPs has warned.
The struggle faced by domestic abuse survivors to access local support has been seriously underestimated by the government, according to a critical new report.
