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Free childcare hours at risk as 9% of areas confident of having enough places
The NAO spending watchdog has warned it will be 'challenging' to recruit early years workers to provide enough places. It raised concerns about the quality of provision
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Only 10% of promised Levelling Up funds actually spent, damning report finds
Dame Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said the levels of delay in the Tories’ flagship plan were 'absolutely astonishing' and hit out at a 'waste of resources'
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HS2 offering 'very poor value for money' after Rishi Sunak scrapped northern leg
The total costs of the project between London and Birmingham now 'significantly outweigh benefits' following the decision to stop trains travelling at high speed any further north
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Classroom asbestos warning as ministers in the dark over risk at 1,000 schools
The Public Accounts Committee found 700,000 pupils are in schools that need major rebuilding or refurbishment as it warned the deterioration of classrooms is affecting learning
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Tories' flagship levelling up plan in chaos as watchdog details project delays
Despite some projects allegedly being 'shovel ready' the National Audit Office says delivery across three government funds worth up to £9.5billion is behind schedule
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Social care shake-up budget stripped of £1bn and hit by delays, says watchdog
Some cash meant to be targeted at the overhaul of crisis-hit social care has been spent elsewhere, according to the Whitehall spending watchdog, the National Audit Office
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Braverman has no credible plan to end asylum hotel use, damning report says
Cross-party MPs have raised a string of doubts over the Home Secretary's ability to clear a mammoth backlog and deal with "unacceptable" costs, warning of 'alarming' compromises
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House of Commons may lie empty for 20 years because of building's hidden problem
The Houses of Parliament faces a raft of urgent issues, including crumbling reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), asbestos, holes in the floor and leaking ceilings
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999 services face huge bills as Home Office 'disconnected from reality, MPs find
A bombshell report by the Commons Public Accounts Commitee found that despite ploughing £2billion into the Emergency Services Network (ESN) communication, there is no evidence it will work
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700,000 kids stuck in crumbling schools and ministers don't know how many unsafe
More than a third (24,000) of English school buildings are past their estimated initial design life - meaning they can continue to be used but are more expensive to maintain and run up higher energy costs
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Failure to 'get a grip' on vetting undermining national security, MPs find
Labour says the findings of a scathing report into national security vetting is another example of failure by Rishi Sunak's Government
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Thousands of teenagers owed share of massive £394million cash pot
Around 145,000 young people are entitled to a share of the £394million child trust funds cash pot - which works at an average of £2,717 each, according to the official spending watchdog
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Billions lost to fraud and error during Covid likely to be lost 'forever'
Cross-party MPs on the Public Accounts Committee claim HMRC's attempts to claw back some £2.3 billion incorrectly paid to employers claiming furlough has been 'woeful'
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Watchdog slams Government over security vetting delays and backlogs
A damning National Audit Office report outlines the scale of delays hitting checks, which Labour said was "a stinging rebuke from the independent watchdog"