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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.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
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