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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 Voice of the Mirror says that Suella Braverman's dangerous rhetoric is fanning the flames ahead of what should be a time of remembrance for the country

Almost 10,000 bonuses were given to passport officials last year despite 360,000 people waiting longer than they should have done to get their documents, ruining travel plans

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 Whitehall spending watchdog said the Government's New Hospital Programme 'has experienced delays and is expected to deliver 32 of the intended target of 40 new hospitals by 2030'

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

Labour has lashed out at the Government and demanded that the National Audit Office (NAO) investigates allegations of wrongdoing at the Teesworks site - but the Government says there is "no evidence" of corruption

The Prime Minister was also grilled on the staggering amounts of Covid fraud on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show... as he launches the Government's own fraud strategy

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

Latest passport rules for Brits as a a planned five week strike by workers at the Passport Office has made applying for a new passport a bit more difficult

The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union announced the 'significant' escalation in industrial action. It also accused the Government of failing to engage in 'meaningful' talks.

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

Labour's figures found that last year 12,460 cases had not come to trial for between one and two years, and 4,893 for more than two years

Some 35 criminals should have been fitted with tags but were left to roam free in September last year. System failures impacted approximately 3,000 cases at HM Courts & Tribunals Service

In a scathing intervention, Professor Richard Sullivan and Dr Ajay Aggarwal warned the move is a sign that the government is not willing to deal with the "complexity and escalated costs" of effective cancer treatment

The National Audit Office confirmed it was 'seeking further information' over the revelation that £220,000 of public money was being spent to fund Boris Johnson's defence against allegations he misled Parliament about Partygate

A damning National Audit Office report outlines the scale of delays hitting checks, which Labour said was "a stinging rebuke from the independent watchdog"

Nearly a quarter of a million pensioners have been affected by the DWP's mistake and around £1.46billion worth of state pension payments has been underpaid as a result

It comes after Rishi Sunak used his first speech of the new year to commit to reducing NHS waiting lists but admitted patients are "not getting the care they deserve" - despite 12 years of Tory rule

In his first major speech as PM, Mr Sunak gave five promises to reboot his crisis-hit Government, including slashing NHS waits - but there was no mention of his party’s decade-long funding squeeze on the NHS