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‘Hasty’ furlough scheme ‘left room for fraud’ say MPs – BBC News
‘Hastily drawn up’ furlough scheme may have lost billions to fraud and error, MPs say
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Rushed-through coronavirus aid may have led to the loss of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money through fraud and error, MPs have warned.
There was an “astonishing lack of economic planning for a pandemic” which led to “hastily drawn up economic support schemes”, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said.
That meant “unacceptable room for fraud against taxpayers,” it added.
But the government said the schemes “had provided a lifeline to millions”.
“We make no …
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