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Action plan needed for ‘unacceptable’ mental health waiting lists
The Department of Health urged to prioritise mental health and increase funding of key services by Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee's Report on Mental Health Services in Northern Ireland
Pensioners left short while benefit fraud still unacceptably high – report
Committee chair Dame Meg Hillier accused the Department for Work and Pensions of being ‘asleep at the switch’.
DfE’s lack of information on schools concrete crisis ‘shocking’, says MPs
The Public Accounts Committee said it was ‘alarming’ that 700,000 pupils in England were learning in schools in need of upgrades.
MPs have ‘no confidence’ in promises made about new hospital programme
The Public Accounts Committee said the programme ‘will not deliver all 40 new hospitals by 2030’.
Next HS2 boss could be paid more than predecessor
Sir Jon Thompson, executive chairman of HS2 Ltd, told the Public Accounts Committee the salary to be offered for the vacant role is being assessed.
‘Disappointing’ more not done to understand inequality for prison leavers – MPs
A report also warned of ‘unprecedented pressures on the prison estate’ which it said threaten the quality of resettlement services.
Vulnerable people increasingly left with poor-quality supported housing – report
A lack of reliable data about the sector poses difficulties to assess or resolve problems within it, MPs said.
Effort to clear asylum backlog could shift pressure to elsewhere in system – MPs
The Government’s current business case for reform of the asylum system is ‘incomplete and unrealistic’, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
Report slams NHS and Department of Health over poor A&E care
The level of care patients can expect depends on where they live, MPs have said.