Scandal of Defra Budget Bungling ; Repeated Budget Bungling and 'Poor Financial Management' of the Government's Rural Affairs Department Have Been Highlighted in a Scathing Report.

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Repeated budget bungling and "poor financial management" of the Government's rural affairs department have been highlighted in a scathing report.

The powerful Committee of Public Accounts, made up of an influential group of MPs, has criticised the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) after it had to claw back more than pounds300 million of public funds over two years.

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Scandal of Defra Budget Bungling ; Repeated Budget Bungling and 'Poor Financial Management' of the Government's Rural Affairs Department Have Been Highlighted in a Scathing Report.

The money had to be taken back from projects aimed at tackling climate change and promoting farming and the countryside after officials had purposefully overspent, because in the past they had fallen short of their budget.

In 2006-07, the fa...

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