National Audit Office

The Ofgem sign on the regulator's office in central London, as household energy bills are likely to increase by around £2.7 billion to cover the costs of the 28 energy suppliers that have gone bust in the past year. Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Energy supplier collapses likely to cost around £2.7bn, report finds

Auditor General Stephen Boyle stuck to his guns

Scottish Government needs challenge, not SNP censorship – Brian Wilson

Take the train rather than flying (photo: Shutterstock)

Going Green - Are you thinking of making great escape with sun summer break?

The BBC were on track to save £1 billion this year due to cuts in content and scope of services, a National Audit Office report found.

Content cuts to help keep BBC on track to save £1 billion a year

Minette Batters

Call to delay farming cuts over food supply chain crisis

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford is to lead an Opposition Day debate on Covid contracts.

SNP demands public inquiry begins immediately into Covid contracts

Nurses changing their PPE on Ward 5, a Covid Red Ward, at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley in January 2021. Picture: PA Media.

Lessons must be learned from Covid-19 pandemic says National Audit Office

The government was not as prepared as it could have been for the Covid pandemic, the National Audit Office found (Photo: Shutterstock)

Government did not have ‘detailed contingency plans’ in place for pandemic

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (Covid-19)

Johnson's handling of Covid pandemic just isn't good enough – Kirsty Strickland

Companies recommended by MPs were handed billions worth of Covid contracts - acc...

New business plan launched to help companies ahead of Brexit in January 2021 picture: JPI Media

New business plan to launch for helping companies when UK breaks from EU

Rebalancing the country’s finances after spending heavily during the pandemic to support the economy is likely to take many years, if the experience of the 2008 financial crisis is anything to go by. Picture: Shutterstock

Has Covid-19 crisis cost the economy more than the 2008 credit crunch?

Scottish firms to have used the scheme include Edinburgh seafood restaurant Ondine. Picture: Lisa Ferguson.

Scots firms pocket hundreds of millions of pounds from Covid loan scheme

£50bn-worth of UK banknotes ‘missing’ from circulation

Cost of Trident ‘could sink MoD budget’

Universal Credit failing taxpayers and benefit claimants, report finds

Britain’s nuclear submarines ‘reliant on spare parts’

Tory chairman Grant Shapps has increased pressure on BBC. Picture: Getty

Build trust or face licence fee cut, BBC warned

'The BBC has breached its own policies on severance too often without good reason'. Picture: Getty

George Kerevan: BBC chiefs like bankers

Former BBC director-general Mark Thompson signed off some of the payments. Picture: Reuters

BBC pay: MP hints at police probe

£450,000 Entwistle pay-off ‘justified and necessary’ – Patten

£850bn - What the bank crash could cost taxpayers

SNP call to scrap nuclear defence plans

Brown faces Commons with 'profound' regret

EU fraud doubles in a year to cost £700m

Borders Victor Meldrew told to stop complaining

Hoon hints at resignation after Hutton

A dirty business?

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First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf tries his hand at hedge trimming during campaigning in Pollok (Pic: Robert Perry/PA Wire)

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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a 'Making Britain Work For Scotland' rally

Gordon Brown’s latest ‘save the Union’ plan faces reality check

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