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- Home Office squandered billions on asylum hotels, MPs say"Flawed contracts" and "incompetent delivery" left the department unable to cope with demand for asylum accommodation, a report by MPs suggests.
- Chancellor hints at tax and spend shift to cushion BudgetReeves said she wanted to ensure the UK had sufficient headroom to provide resilience against future shocks.
- 'Flawed' HMRC system stops hundreds of child benefit paymentsHundreds of families in Northern Ireland had their child benefit payments stopped because they flew through Dublin Airport.
- North Sea oil and gas firm Petrofac files for administrationThe energy services provider, which had been undergoing a financial restructuring, employs about 2,000 people in Scotland.
- Inventor up for award for tackling microplasticsThe engineer says his invention was created at his mother-in-law's dining table.