The UK government can now argue that it is backing the statements it has made about tackling fraud with an injection of cash and some ambition.
Over recent months and years there has been a procession of eye-opening disclosures about the scale of fraud in the UK. In many cases, these have been followed by swift statements from government figures about how such fraud is being tackled and the efforts that are being made to track down and hold to account those who are to blame.
The problem with such statements, however, has been a lack of credibility. Taxpayers now know that almost £1 billion has been lost to fraudulent coronavirus grant applications. The National Audit Office has let it be known that less than half a per cent of all “estimated irregular payments” paid out in such grants by l...
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