Whitehall is still 'moving too slowly' on clawing back taxpayer cash lost to ... trends now
Whitehall is still 'moving too slowly' on clawing back taxpayer cash lost to ... trends now
Whitehall is still 'moving too slowly' on clawing back taxpayer cash that was lost to Covid fraud and error Dame Meg Hillier said ministers are still 'too slow' to claw back taxpayer cash Annual report shows fraud against taxpayer soared to £21bn in last two years
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Ministers are still being 'too slow' to claw back taxpayers' money lost to Covid fraud and error, a senior MP has warned.
Public accounts committee chairman Dame Meg Hillier said the Government had a 'golden opportunity' to learn from the lessons of the pandemic to deal better with risk.
In her annual report, she cited studies showing that fraud against the taxpayer soared from £5.5 billion in 2018-20 to £21 billion in the most recent two years.
While accepting some mistakes
