Accounts for Home Office

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A FINANCIAL shambles at the Home Office resulted in its accounting system producing figures showing transactions of more than £26 trillion: one and a half times higher than the GDP of the planet, according to a report published today.

Serious weaknesses in controls in the department exposed it to a high risk of fraud, irregularity, poor value for money and waste in its financial operations.

The damning indictment of the leadership of the department under Sir John Gieve, its former permanent secretary and now Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, comes in a report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee.

He's alright - can do no wrong - Could he?

Certainly impressed Richard Bacon :-

.."In any parish council or cricket club the person responsible would have been out on his ear. What actually happened was that Sir John was promoted to become Deputy Governor of the Bank of England in charge of financial stability in the banking system.
You might reasonably expect to see this in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, but not in real life."..

Skin like a Rhino --

 

[Nige F]

Like I`ve said before ........Bureauracracy feeds its self