Over £1bn in covid grants has still not been paid back as MPs question the value of handing out £22.6bn to businesses with few checks during the pandemic
A company director has been banned and given a nightly curfew after claiming the maximum £50,000 bounce back loan and dissolving his company to avoid repayment
More than a third of directors struck off the company register in the last 12 months have been involved in fraud related to bounce back loans paid out during the pandemic
A former West Yorkshire town councillor has been jailed for two and a half years for trying to steal more than £430,000 from the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme
The National Audit Office (NAO) is calling on government to improve its oversight after millions of pounds was fraudulently claimed through Covid grant schemes