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While school rebuilding budgets have been slashed, Winchester College has been building a state-of-the-art sports centre, paid for in part by 'the generosity of Old Wykehamists'

More than 6,500 cases have been waiting two or more years, with an official watchdog ruling the Tories' target to reduce the backlog to 53,000 'no longer achievable'

HMRC’s strategy is to encourage customers to turn to its digital services first – but it is not clear how far and fast digital services will reduce demand for telephone and correspondence services

The costs for a system designed to help people see all of their pensions together online have increased from £235million in 2020 to £289million in 2023

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

Labour's Louise Haigh accused ministers of 'rigging the rules' to help fat cat bosses as she prepares to set out details of her plan to renationalise the railways

Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has come up with a worthy plan to fight the greed of the big corporations and filthy rich by clawing back more five billion into government coffers

A 'staggering' National Audit Office report found the cost of moving asylum seekers onto four sites, including the Bibby Stockholm barge, is higher than keeping them in hotels

A report by the National Audit Office uncovered a string of add-on fees agreed by ministers with the Rwandan government, with Labour branding it a 'national scandal'

New figures released by the National Audit Office show the staggering increase in the overall cost of Universal Credit is largely down to inflation and the delayed timetable

The scheme involves mobile operators sharing infrastructure to boost mobile signal in rural areas

The official government spending watchdog said vulnerable people who need legal help could be missing out - and the Ministry of Justice was failing to keep track

The National Audit Office said that the Government should have a clear plan for buying in a 'seller's market' where it needs to deal with suppliers it does not normally use

The UK imported 9.1 million tonnes of wood pellets for energy in 2021

Since 2012 – more than a decade after the Post Office accounting scandal began – the public sector has awarded Fujitsu almost 200 contracts worth £6.8billion in total, analyst says

Tories told to 'grasp the nettle' and pay social care workers a decent wage as the latest crackdown on migration sparks fears of a new recruitment crisis in the sector

Fifty-five projects across the UK were awarded a share of nearly £1billion but Labour criticised ministers for failing to explain what will happen to unsuccessful areas

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

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

The risk to pupils’ lives has been known for five years after a primary school partly collapsed in Kent, but documents seen by the Mirror indicate there could be chaos ahead for thousands of pupils

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) used to automatically add National Insurance credits to claimants' records - but switched to doing this manually from 2017/18

Those in charge are now officially criminals, bullies, and incompetents, says Fleet Street Fox. The Mafia would never have sold the water or wasted money on Rwanda

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

Environmental activists wearing swimming trunks, flip flops and scuba diving gear gathered outside the PM’s mansion as they protest against his new private heated pool

The spending watchdog found that 'no contingency plans existed between central and local government for supporting firms during a national emergency' when the pandemic hit and it meant mistakes were made