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Brexit has increased risk of dangerous foods reaching UK, watchdog warns

Food Standards Agency is shut out of EU’s ’rapid alert system’ – and faces huge extra costs to build alternative defences

The Independent UK

UK forced to bridge data gap after losing full access to EU food alerts – report

Regulators say loss of data sharing arrangements after Brexit has negatively impacted their ability to carry out their work, the NAO has warned.

The Independent UK

More than half of children in custody are now from ethnic minority groups and nearly all are boys

The proportion of incarcerated children who come from ethnic minority backgrounds has soared over the past decade.

Wales Online

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Number of children in custody in England and Wales set to double by 2024

Report also highlights increasing over-representation of black and minority ethnic children in custody

The Guardian - UK

Number of children in custody set to double by 2024

The National Audit Office report also finds that ethnic minority groups are overrepresented in custody

Wales Online

Numbers of children in custody set to double by 2024

The opening of a new secure school has been delayed by three years.

The Independent UK

Fight against fly-tipping and illegal waste being hampered by landfill tax and lack of data, says report

UK Government 'does not have the data it needs to assess the scale of waste crime'

Wales Online

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Landfill tax rises boosting fly-tipping, says spending watchdog

National Audit Office says tax has increased amount of money criminals can make from waste crime

The Guardian - UK

UK quarantine hotels cost taxpayer £400m, watchdog finds

National Audit Office reveals losses in report on how UK managed cross-border travel during Covid pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Covid travel rules that cost £486m in taxpayers’ money were imposed without overall assessment

The National Audit Office urged the Government to learn lessons in case travel restrictions need to be reintroduced

The Independent UK

Sir Gordon Downey obituary

Senior civil servant and parliamentary commissioner for standards who investigated the ‘cash for questions’ affair

The Guardian - UK

Watchdog highlights 'catalogue of failures' in Covid travel rules for England

There was no system to gauge success of measures such as traffic light system, self-isolation, testing, quarantine hotels or passenger locator forms

Wales Online

Spending watchdog warns £2.7 billion at risk from government PPE contracts

Chair of public accounts committee says government must ‘get a grip’ of PPE stocks and contracts

The Independent UK

1.5bn unused PPE items in England have passed expiry date, says audit office

Report says health department has paid £737m for storage, with 3.6bn items considered unsuitable for frontline use

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Warnings over challenges facing Government plan to hire 20,000 police officers

The Home Office expects to spend £3.6 billion on the recruitment programme up to March 2023.

The Guardian - UK

Matt Hancock failed to disclose messages with Owen Paterson over Covid contracts

Health department did not keep full records of meetings with healthcare firm Paterson lobbied for, NAO finds

Daily Mirror

'Inadequate' records kept of £700m worth of Covid deals for firm linked to Tory MP

The NAO found ministers attended eight meetings with testing firm Randox - twice as many as previously disclosed - but kept minutes for just two

Daily Mirror

No big British defence project is on time and on budget, as PM heads to NATO

A study by Whitehall spending watchdog the National Audit Office has revealed none of the Ministry of Defence's programmes in the £166.6bn Major Projects Portfolio has the coveted "green" rating

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Birmingham Post

British Steel pension savers suffer losses, new report reveals

Many have not been fully compensated having opted to transfer out of original scheme after being given unsuitable advice by third parties

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of UK steelworkers victims of pension regulation scandal, says NAO

Some members of British Steel pension scheme have incurred losses of up to £489,000

The Guardian - UK

MoD delivery of Ajax armoured vehicles will be a challenge, says watchdog

Unresolved safety issues has led to four-year delay of 589 vehicles, leaving army with ageing equipment

Daily Mirror

Decade-old Tory child maintenance reform 'hasn't helped more families get cash'

Tory ministers shook up the child maintenance system in 2012 - yet there's been 'no clear change in the overall number of effective child maintenance arrangements'

Wales Online

Covid jab rollout was good value for public money, watchdog claims

The independent watchdog said there were risks ahead for the programme, including staff burnout and reaching groups with a lower rate of uptake

The Guardian - UK

England’s Covid vaccine drive good value for money at £8.3bn, says NAO

Spending watchdog praises everyone involved in programme but warns of ‘substantial risks’ to future success

Birmingham Post

Tax changes raised £250m, but heaped cost on employers, review finds

It was a problem that HMRC estimates cost the public purse around £440 million in a year.

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