Labour describes the report as a 'damning indictment of eye-watering Tory waste', while the government insists it has recovered more than £3.1bn of fraud losses.
"No-one could predict the COVID-19 pandemic, but we could have been better prepared," the report added.Advertisement
"The scale of the losses incurred in a panic response on issues such as PPE procurement are documented in this report. We need to learn the lesson that there is always unpredictability." A Government spokesperson said:"In the last two years, we have recovered more than £3.1bn of fraud losses, including within COVID-19 schemes, and as the report acknowledges, we have already made significant progress by establishing the Public Sector Fraud Authority.
"However, we are not complacent, which is why we are expanding the Government's Counter-Fraud Profession, developing new technologies and boosting skills and training to further protect the public purse."'A scandal of a huge proportion' Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, said:"This is a damning indictment of eye-watering Tory waste, with Rishi Sunak writing off billions in taxpayers' money lost to COVID fraud after ignoring basic checks and warnings."
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