Embarrassing?

[Gromit]

// The welfare to work firm owned by David Cameron’s former families tsar Emma Harrison is involved in a “multi-billion-pound scandal” in which public money has been systematically misused, a whistleblower says. //

http://www.telegraph....rk-fraud-scandal.html

Fraud, sleaze and corruption. Do the Tories never learn?

[hc4361]

You think any other party is any different when it comes to embarrassment, sleaze, corruption?

[ABerrant]

Emma Harrison is an equal opportunities systematic misuser.

After the Labour Party came to power in 1997, they introduced the back to work New Deal service for those on Jobseeker's Allowance... A4e was the largest provider of New Deal services in the UK...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4e

Emma Harrison received her CBE in the New Year Honours of 2010, courtesy of the Labour government.

[venator]

Good old Gromit - reliably one sided as always

[venator]

The dates in the report are 2009 and 2010 and the fraud was before that - which party was in power then, Gromit?

[Gromit]

Sorry venator, this company got a huge tranche of new work from the Coalition Government. It was in late 2010 that they employed an internal auditor who's evidence is the meat in this report.

// With hundreds of millions of pounds in taxpayer-funded contracts, it seemed like A4e was on course to win yet another tranche of lucrative work from the new Coalition government to help get jobs for unemployed people.
The prosperity of A4e may have pleased Mrs Harrison, but it was a “surprise” for Eddie Hutchinson.
The experienced accountant was appointed head of internal audit at A4e in the autumn of 2010, just before Downing Street lauded his boss’s “proven track record”.
Within weeks of starting, his attention was drawn to what he described as an “ever-increasing volume of frauds”, sometimes more than one potential case a day, Mr Hutchinson said in evidence to Parliament.

After seven months at A4e, Mr Hutchinson said in evidence that he was convinced he had seen “unethical behaviour, mismanagement, inadequate corporate governance, and risk management, and excessive payments in the form of salaries and bonuses”. He has told MPs: “In my professional view, it was systemic.”

[bazwillrun]

Whenever you have contracts of this size under ANY government there is fraud and corruption.

Wether its discovered and comes to public attention is another matter.

One of the business Holy Grails is to get large government contracts, always has and always will.

Theres lots of hassle and hoops to jump through but its usually worth it in the end !

[venator]

OK Gromit, but your lot didn't spot her fiddling in 13 years - in fact they awarded her a CBE.

The Tories employed the internal auditor who spotted the corruption in 2010.

How many years had they been in power at that time?

[venator]

Have you noticed Emma Harrison's uncanny resemblance to Cherie Blair?

[TheNovice]

think this is a bit of an own goal Gromit!!!