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The “eye-watering” amount of taxpayers’ money lost to fraudsters who exploited Covid support schemes could be even higher than previously feared, MPs have warned. The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has estimated that £4.9bn has been lost from loans issued to ineligible businesses during the pandemic. But the Public Accounts Committee said the total sum squandered “could go even higher” because of unknown amounts lost to fraud and error from grant funding given to businesses via local authorities. Labour MP Meg Hillier, chair of the committee, said the government had offered “an open goal to fraudsters and embezzlers and they have cashed in – adding billions and billions to taxpayer woes”. In a damning report, the committee said it was worried that attempts to recover lost money will be in vain “as the money will have been spent and the trails will have long ago gone cold”. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has denied “ignoring” Covid support scheme fraud, and has promised that the government would “do everything we can” to recover money stolen by fraudsters. MPs condemned BEIS officials over the billions lost to error and fraudsters from Covid loans – saying they “did not sufficiently identify or reflect the potential risks from organised economic crime”. Suitcases filled with cash from the Covid loans were seized at the border as suspected embezzlers attempted to smuggle them out of the country, The Times reported last month. The committee also found that the department distributed £21.8bn of Covid grant funding to businesses through local authorities, but still “lacks information on recipients” of this money. BEIS officials have only estimated the level of fraud and error in under half of these grants – but already expects over £1bn of that to be lost. MPs called on the government to set out exactly how it will work with councils across the UK to calculate “robust” fraud and error estimates – and do more to recover the squandered money. The cross-party committee said it was “unconvinced” that the department’s current plans for recovering swindled money will act as a “sufficient deterrent” to those considering committing fraud. Ms Hillier said: “BEIS says it saw this risk coming, but it’s really not clear where government was looking when it set up its initial Covid response.” The senior Labour MP added: “These mistakes must be written out of future crisis responses, now, and government would do well to apply the learnings to the mounting, interrelated crises it now faces in climate change, energy supply and the cost-of-living.” Lord Agnew quit as the government’s efficiency tsar over the handling of fraudulent Covid loans in January. He accused officials of making “schoolboy errors” by handing out money to over 1,000 companies not trading at the start of the pandemic. A government spokesperson said: “We’re continuing to crack down on Covid support scheme fraud and will not tolerate those who seek to defraud consumers and taxpayers. “These schemes were implemented at unprecedented speed to protect millions of jobs and businesses. If the government didn’t move quickly, more businesses would have failed and many more jobs lost.” Read More ‘Dude from Silicon Valley’: Rishi Sunak’s reputation has ‘crashed like crypto Ponzi scheme’, says Ed Miliband Poorest families yet to receive Rishi Sunak’s promised £150 help with soaring energy bills Boris Johnson rejects Bank governor’s claim of ‘helplessness’ over cost of living crisis Government must do everything in its power to reduce Covid loan fraud hit – MPs WHO: 2nd COVID booster for most vulnerable offers benefits Idaho governor faces Trump-backed candidate in GOP primary

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Brexit has increased the risk of dangerous foods reaching the UK because inspectors are shut out of the EU’s “rapid alert system”, ministers are warned today. The Food Standards Agency is still scrambling to build defences to compensate for the loss of data, the National Audit Office has found – a task made more difficult by the UK scrapping planned import checks. The regulator has admitted it needs a 65 per cent boost to its resources to “deliver the same result achieved with the EU’s system”, the report warns. In common with other regulators, Brexit has had a “negative impact on their ability to assess risks or carry out their work”, the NAO concludes. “Failures in food safety can have catastrophic consequences for human life, public confidence, the wider economy and international trade,” the watchdog points out. The chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee highlighted the big gap between “high-minded talk of new Brexit freedoms and what it means in practice for regulation”. “Government must clearly light the way to prevent regulators fumbling around in the dark,” Meg Hillier said. Until the UK left the EU, it was part of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), allowing it to exchange information about food safety incidents and responses across the bloc. The FSA is forced to mitigate for the information loss “using other international systems, publicly available data, or by setting up data sharing arrangements on a case-by-case basis”. However, these are at “an early stage” and “there is a risk that it may have less information about food fraud risks”, the body told the inquiry. The problem mirrors the loss of instant alerts about suspected terrorists and organised criminals. Full controls on imports from the EU were seen as part of the post-Brexit defences, but the government has abandoned them over fears of adding to the cost of living crisis. Vets have warned the move is opening the door to diseases such as African Swine Fever and “wreak havoc” on disease prevention. The UK and EU intended to begin talks on “voluntary regulatory cooperation, such as exchange of information on good regulatory practices”. However, little progress has been made, due in part to the battle between the two sides over the Northern Ireland Protocol. A “regulatory cooperation committee” has met only once and will meet only once a year in future. The NAO’s warning comes following a salmonella scare which has seen more than 100 products containing cooked chicken removed from sale by a major supplier. Cranswick Country Foods said they included sandwiches and wraps sold at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Aldi, the Co-op, Pret a Manger and Marks & Spencer. In its evidence, the FSA said it had struck a data-sharing deal, in December 2021, with HMRC to “increase its intelligence on imports from the EU of high-risk food and feed”. “In time, it expects these new data sources to enhance its ability to identify food safety risks, but it is at an early stage in embedding their use,” the NAO stated. Gareth Davies, the head of the watchdog, said: “EU exit has had a major impact on many UK regulators. “They need to overcome many challenges if they are to manage the transition successfully, including recruiting the right specialist skills.” A spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: “We will ensure our regulators are fit for purpose and working as effectively as possible.” Read More NI protocol live: PM vows unilateral action in Brexit row Tory MP wants benefits raised immediately after visit to food bank Hague attacks PM as weak and immoral over obesity plan U-turn UK forced to bridge data gap after losing full access to EU food alerts – report Analysis: What would the proposed changes to the NI protocol mean for businesses? Brexit: Lorry drivers need ‘documents partly written in Latin’ to export goods to EU