http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6320737.stm
Fraud and error led to benefits worth about £2.6bn being overpaid in 2005-06, according to estimates from the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP).
The figures are similar to those published by the National Audit Office in November last year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6311629.stm
The jail system is in "serious crisis" with overcrowding affecting rehabilitation of offenders, the chief inspector of prisons has warned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6306807.stm
Police forces across the UK have lost track of the whereabouts of 322 convicted sex offenders, a newspaper has reported.
Using the Freedom of Information Act, the News of the World asked all 50 forces in England and Wales how many sex offenders are missing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6304745.stm
The Identity and Passport Service has failed to enforce overseas travel bans imposed by the courts on nearly 150 convicted drug traffickers.
The service is still trying to trace 15 of the 147 traffickers who have left jail and may have gone abroad.
The government said there had been "no risk to public protection" and that most of those handed bans were in jail.
What a shower.
Fraud and error led to benefits worth about £2.6bn being overpaid in 2005-06, according to estimates from the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP).
The figures are similar to those published by the National Audit Office in November last year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6311629.stm
The jail system is in "serious crisis" with overcrowding affecting rehabilitation of offenders, the chief inspector of prisons has warned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6306807.stm
Police forces across the UK have lost track of the whereabouts of 322 convicted sex offenders, a newspaper has reported.
Using the Freedom of Information Act, the News of the World asked all 50 forces in England and Wales how many sex offenders are missing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6304745.stm
The Identity and Passport Service has failed to enforce overseas travel bans imposed by the courts on nearly 150 convicted drug traffickers.
The service is still trying to trace 15 of the 147 traffickers who have left jail and may have gone abroad.
The government said there had been "no risk to public protection" and that most of those handed bans were in jail.
What a shower.
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