Government Spending

  • NewsAOL

    Foreign Office scammed out of almost £1 million by fake firm in Dubai

    Foreign Office officials were conned into handing over £889,840 to a fake firm in Dubai. When they discovered their mistake, they were only able to claw back a tiny fraction of the cash - leaving taxpayers footing the bill for their blunder. A

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    Warning on government credit cards

    The Government has been accused of "complacency" after a watchdog warned that controls on its credit cards are still too slack. Some departments have large backlogs of unapproved purchases, while in other cases receipts and invoices

  • BusinessAOL

    Potholes: The new growth industry

    The government says we need to find growth industries to help us out of the financial crisis, but the growing number of potholes may not be it. According to a survey of local authorities by the catchily-named Asphalt Industry Alliance, it would

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    'False economy' of cutting road repair budgets slammed

    Councils have been told by the Department for Transport (DfT) to slash their road repair budgets by £223m in the coming financial year - around 40 percent of the total. But a new report by the Public Accounts Committee has said that this will