Almost A Third Of Britain’s Pandemic Spend Raises Corruption Questions

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Almost A Third Of Britain’s Pandemic Spend Raises Corruption Questions
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Almost a third of the U.K. government’s £41.8 billion pandemic spend carried a ‘high risk’ of corruption, a charity probe has found.

The government paused many standard procurement rules during the pandemic in an effort to get goods into the country as quickly as possible. But this decision has long been considered controversial. In a letter to the country’s Public Accounts Committee, the National Audit Office and Chancellor Rachel Reeves, chief executive Daniel Bruce said his charity’s review “points to more than coincidence or incompetence.”

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