A TaxPayers' Alliance investigation has found that the government has an outstanding bill of £47 billion for compensation claims. A report produced by the National Audit Office showed that $84 billion has been pledged, including 12 compensation schemes for injustice, cover-ups, and negligence.
Speaking to the Independent, which published these findings, our chief executive, John O'Connell, said:
"Taxpayers will be utterly appalled by the vast bill they’ve been left with as a result of this catalogue of cock-ups by previous governments.
"When things go badly wrong, those impacted are right to expect and indeed demand compensation, but what is inexcusable is that these mistakes are by no means once in a blue moon.
"The new government can demonstrate that they represent a change by resolving existing schemes quickly and efficiently while ensuring these sorts of errors are a thing of the past.”
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