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28 Jun 22
Digital technologies have opened a new front in the war against money laundering.
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26 May 22
Is a hardening of governments’ approaches to money laundering anything more than cosmetic?
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20 May 22
The Department for Work and Pensions is set to spend £600m and give officers new legal powers in a move ministers say will help prevent £4bn of fraud in the benefit system over the next five years.
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18 May 22
MPs have criticised the government for allowing “billions and billions” of pounds to be lost to fraud and error in Covid-19 support schemes, and particularly for lacking information on loans and...
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28 Apr 22
The Treasury will spend £25m on a 'fraud squad' aimed at recovering funds wrongly given out in Covid-19 support schemes, with hopes the team will be up and running by the summer.
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27 Apr 22
The government’s apparent lack of long-term plan to recover overdue debt issued via its £47bn Covid-19 business loan scheme means fraudsters could “walk away with billions of taxpayers’ money”,...
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22 Apr 22
The resignation of former Treasury minister Lord Agnew highlights the need for public bodies to put in place robust anti-corruption measures, says Richard Lloyd-Bithell.
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19 Apr 22
Local authorities in England have urged residents to remain vigilant over cold calling scams linked to the £150 energy rebates that councils are overseeing this year.
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5 Apr 22
Essex County Council is set to invest £1m to help improve its cyber security, after experts warned of heightened risks of Russian interference in public bodies.
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23 Mar 22
North Lincolnshire Council was duped into paying out nearly £50,000 to an incorrect bank account as part of sophisticated email scam, it has emerged.
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18 Mar 22
Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index shows a worrying trend among advanced economies. What are the lessons for public sector finance professionals?
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16 Mar 22
The level of fraud in the government’s Covid-19 loan schemes is around £1.5bn less than previously forecast, according to senior officials at the British Business Bank.
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10 Mar 22
The former Cabinet Office and Treasury minister who resigned in January over the government’s measures to tackle fraud in Covid-19 loan schemes yesterday told MPs that officials and...
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25 Feb 22
A CIPFA apprentice has won the best newcomer category at an annual public sector counter fraud awards ceremony.
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16 Feb 22
Leeds City Council has paid out more than £1m in Covid-19 business grant support to fraudsters, it has emerged.
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14 Feb 22
Gloucester City Council has created a £380,000 reserve in 2022-23 to fund IT recovery works following a recent cyber attack.
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10 Feb 22
A group of MPs has criticised what it called HMRC’s lack of ambition to recover billions of pounds lost to fraud amid Covid-19.
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8 Feb 22
Lord Agnew’s dramatic resignation as a minister on the floor of the House of Lords has brought into sharp focus some of the actions the government needs to take on counter fraud.
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8 Feb 22
A London borough is co-operating with a police probe into an allegation of fraud linked to a housing development project.
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24 Jan 22
Lord Agnew of Oulton has resigned as a minister, citing “arrogance, indolence and ignorance” across government in relation to counter fraud.
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21 Jan 22
The UK government seems to have decided it is easier to recoup money paid out in error to the poorest in society than from Covid-19 support scheme fraudsters, says George Turner.
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17 Jan 22
The Treasury has written off the possibility of recovering most of the money lost to fraud and error during the pandemic, according to official documents.
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14 Jan 22
The agency administering housing benefit on behalf of the Northern Irish government has had its 2020-21 accounts qualified over “material levels” of fraud and error, according to the...
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4 Jan 22
A government anti-fraud team has recovered more than £1bn from tax offenders and criminals in the five years since it was set up, according to HM Revenue and Customs.
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21 Dec 21
A councillor responsible for overseeing Covid-19 relief for small businesses fraudulently applied for a £10,000 hardship grant for an inoperative pizza restaurant he owned, a court has found.
28 Jun 22Digital technologies have opened a new front in the war against money laundering.
26 May 22Is a hardening of governments’ approaches to money laundering anything more than cosmetic?
20 May 22The Department for Work and Pensions is set to spend £600m and give officers new legal powers in a move ministers say will help prevent £4bn of fraud in the benefit system over the next five years.
18 May 22MPs have criticised the government for allowing “billions and billions” of pounds to be lost to fraud and error in Covid-19 support schemes, and particularly for lacking information on loans and...
28 Apr 22The Treasury will spend £25m on a 'fraud squad' aimed at recovering funds wrongly given out in Covid-19 support schemes, with hopes the team will be up and running by the summer.
22 Apr 22The resignation of former Treasury minister Lord Agnew highlights the need for public bodies to put in place robust anti-corruption measures, says Richard Lloyd-Bithell.
19 Apr 22Local authorities in England have urged residents to remain vigilant over cold calling scams linked to the £150 energy rebates that councils are overseeing this year.
5 Apr 22Essex County Council is set to invest £1m to help improve its cyber security, after experts warned of heightened risks of Russian interference in public bodies.
23 Mar 22North Lincolnshire Council was duped into paying out nearly £50,000 to an incorrect bank account as part of sophisticated email scam, it has emerged.
18 Mar 22Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index shows a worrying trend among advanced economies. What are the lessons for public sector finance professionals?
10 Mar 22The former Cabinet Office and Treasury minister who resigned in January over the government’s measures to tackle fraud in Covid-19 loan schemes yesterday told MPs that officials and...
25 Feb 22A CIPFA apprentice has won the best newcomer category at an annual public sector counter fraud awards ceremony.
16 Feb 22Leeds City Council has paid out more than £1m in Covid-19 business grant support to fraudsters, it has emerged.
10 Feb 22A group of MPs has criticised what it called HMRC’s lack of ambition to recover billions of pounds lost to fraud amid Covid-19.
8 Feb 22Lord Agnew’s dramatic resignation as a minister on the floor of the House of Lords has brought into sharp focus some of the actions the government needs to take on counter fraud.
8 Feb 22A London borough is co-operating with a police probe into an allegation of fraud linked to a housing development project.
21 Jan 22The UK government seems to have decided it is easier to recoup money paid out in error to the poorest in society than from Covid-19 support scheme fraudsters, says George Turner.
17 Jan 22The Treasury has written off the possibility of recovering most of the money lost to fraud and error during the pandemic, according to official documents.
14 Jan 22The agency administering housing benefit on behalf of the Northern Irish government has had its 2020-21 accounts qualified over “material levels” of fraud and error, according to the...
4 Jan 22A government anti-fraud team has recovered more than £1bn from tax offenders and criminals in the five years since it was set up, according to HM Revenue and Customs.
21 Dec 21A councillor responsible for overseeing Covid-19 relief for small businesses fraudulently applied for a £10,000 hardship grant for an inoperative pizza restaurant he owned, a court has found.
