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£81 Billion To Fraud. £28 Billion To Criminals And Enemies.
Up to £81bn lost to fraud and error in a single year. DWP accounts qualified by auditors for 37 consecutive years. A buried Cabinet Office dossier reportedly found £28bn reached hostile states, criminals and terrorists. Britain does not have a fraud problem. It is the fraud problem.
£15.3 Billion On Hotel Rooms For Asylum Applicants
Asylum hotels cost £144.98 per person per night because the Home Office could not process claims at £23.25. Contractors took £383 million in profit. The department forgot to collect what its own contracts said it was owed. The total bill hit £15 billion.
£11 Billion On A 999 Network That Still Doesn’t Work
In 2011, the Home Office set out to replace Britain's emergency radio system with a cheaper, modern 4G network. Fifteen years, three resets, five billion pounds and one monopoly supplier later, the old radios are still there, the replacement still is not, and the bill is heading for eleven billion.
£18.6 Billion, 12 Years, And 26,048 Breakdowns
Britain fills nearly two million potholes a year and the roads are still getting worse. The backlog has hit a record £18.62 billion. The state is not failing to fill holes. It is failing to maintain roads. And the cause is underground. It is all connected.