Work and Pensions - Estimates of the levels of fraud and error in the benefit system covering the twelve month period April 2007 to March 2008 are published today as a National Statistics report.

The Liberal Democrats have today accused the Government of trying to bury a report revealing how high quality NHS cancer services are being undermined by the internal market’s funding system. The report commissioned by the Department of Health was finalised in May 2008 but not published until Friday 8 August, the opening day of the Beijing Olympics. The report finds that system of Payment by...

Wrong system So the ultimate Man of System blames The System. According to Gordo, The System governing MPs' pay and rations is a failed system. It is A System that has failed to prevent MPs systematically fleecing us for their own personal profit. So his solution is - yes - A New System. And the key element of his new system is that MPs' pay and rations will henceforth be determined and ...

To state the obvious, the problem with the US government's bailout of the US financial system is that the US government doesn't have $700 million. It doesn't in fact have any money at all, being quite absurdly in debt. The idea that this creation of yet more funny money in some way heals the system is patently absurd. It merely postpones, very temporarily, some impoverishment and en...

£50,000,000,000 is a lot of money. Yesterday taxpayers were told they would spending that much on buying up some more financial instruments to help the banking system. £50,000,000,000 is more than this year’s departmental spending on “children schools and families”.

WORK has begun on installing a new touchscreen voting system in the Scottish Parliament's debating chamber at a cost of £270,000 - even though the current system works fin

The true scale of the collapse of the college grant system is today revealed in figures which show that more than 100,000 students are still awaiting support payments nearly three months after they were due. Thousands of the students - among them the poorest in England - will not get their money before Christmas, college principals say. The figures, obtained through a parliamentary question tabled...

This Nulab government went one better than the normal system of pork-barrel spending. As well as just bribing people with their own tax money, they dusted down the age-old wizard wheeze of bribing people with their own debts.Jock Coats linked to coverage of Eddie George's evidence to the Treasury Select Committee of early 2007:"In the environment of global economic weakness at the beginning of thi...

One of the benefits of the recent Government intervention into the banking system is the reassurance that the practice of irresponsible lending will end. Yet, Government Minister Yvette Cooper tells us that she wants a return to 2007 lending rates as soon as possible. How does she square this circle? Well, banks were irresponsible to lend the money last year because they didn’t have the mone...

Stephen Twigg MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responding to the preliminary report from Ofqual on the examination system, said: