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...
Reported fraud nearly quadrupling in the wake of Covid-19, and the fact that the government looks unlikely to recover most of the money, could lead to fraud and corruption becoming more accepted, the...
Just 1% of fraudulent or incorrect Covid-19 business grant payments have been recovered by councils, because there are no incentives for them to do so, the National Audit Office has said.
“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.
The Home Office has no idea what other departments are spending on fraud, despite plans for cross-government collaboration, the National Audit Office has warned.
Poor understanding of fraud risks and the failure to set targets to reduce incorrect payments could see the government saddled with unacceptable levels of fraud in the benefits system, the Public...
Fraud seems “like an afterthought” in courts and policing when it comes to funding, leaving services unable to deal with the rising scale and complexity of cyber crime, a group of MPs has said.
Billions lost to fraud and error in the furlough scheme and other Covid-19 support programmes mean the government faces calls to strengthen its estimates and recovery efforts.
A central London council has launched a campaign against money laundering and other economic crime, which it said has been put into the spotlight since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Repealing reforms to off-payroll working rules could lead to a return of “widespread non-compliance and significant loss of tax revenues”, compliance experts have said.
Luton Borough Council paid out more than £1m to a criminal organisation posing as its local enterprise partnership, and efforts to retrieve the money have so far failed.
Incidents reported to Glasgow City Council’s whistleblowing service grew by nearly 50% from the year before in 2021-22, but the numbers are still short of their level from before the onset of Covid-...
