Tories are spending taxpayers' money 'with reckless abandon' after £4.1billion write-off

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Labour unveiled the figures with Deputy Leader Angela Rayner saying Tory economic policy is just a 'colossal undo'

The Tories have overseen the write-off of more than £4 billion (

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Tory ministers have been accused of spending taxpayers' money with 'reckless abandon' after the government last year canceled more than £4.1billion, or £146 per household.

As families struggled to make ends meet, the commercial department, BEIS, estimates it lost £1billion due to fraud and error in its Covid-19 business support scheme.< /p>

An additional £8.6m was wasted by the Home Office as it threw away the burgundy passports when the color changed to blue.

Around £800,000 was spent on airfare for migrant deportations which went unused following legal challenges.

The Ministry of Justice has canceled £233million, including £2million lost after the UK Prison and Probation Service miscalculated how much to charge for accommodation young people.

Ms Rayner attacked the government for setting aside more than £4billion (

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At the Department for Education, £3.2m was wasted drawing up plans for a new building for the National College for Digital Skills, before the project was scrapped.

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Angela Rayner, Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, who unveiled the figures, said: 'This catalog of waste and radiation shows the cost of Conservative government.

"They claim to be the party of fiscal prudence and sound money, but they simply cannot be trusted with the UK economy.

"Tory economic policy is nothing but colossal undoing, leaving taxpayers to pay through the nose for ministers' mistakes.

"Conservatives have been recklessly spending other people's money for a long time...