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Last year the Public Accounts Committee, which I Chair, raised serious concerns about the evaluation of drugs provided through the Cancer Drugs Fund.

We concluded that the Fund required significant and urgent reform if it was to be sustainable.

If patients seeking support through schemes such as this are to…

The Government’s funding of free schools is incoherent and offers poor value for money.

The Public Accounts Committee, which I Chair, has today published its report into capital funding for schools.

The Department for Education needs to spend at least £6.7billion just to get all school buildings to a satisfactory…

Today’s National Audit Office report shows that HMRC's prolonged failure to collect the right amount of VAT from online sellers outside the EU resulted in lost tax revenue of up to £1.5 billion in 2015-16.

This is a double whammy for taxpayers. Overseas sellers who avoid VAT undercut the prices…

As the Public Accounts Committee made clear in its submission to the review in October last year, the story of the Garden Bridge is a sorry tale about how high profile individuals with the ear of the powerful Mayor of London can gain access to funds with little risk.

At…

The dreadful human consequences of this contract are well-documented but the story does not end with its termination.

Having taken the work contracted to Concentrix in-house, it is critical that now delivers for tax credit claimants.

is undergoing significant change and, as our Committee has previously documented, in recent year…