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Civil servants' union PCS demanded yesterday that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) renationalise its computer development work after tech firms squandered £140 million on a useless IT system.
A Commons public accounts committee report blasted the Tories' flagship universal credit scheme, which was to utilise the IT system, as a "shocking" failure.
In a strongly worded report, MPs voiced doubts about whether the £425m shake-up of the benefits system can still be finished by 2017.
The Wye, Usk, Arrow and Lugg were once treasured for their clean waters – today, pollution and corporate excess are fuelling demands for a return to public ownership, says MARK SEDDON
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped