08.06.11
Europe Under Scrutiny
The Bureau and People & Power investigate why the EU funding system is riddled with fraud and mismanagement.
07.06.11
Health
An investigation by the Bureau revealed growing questions over private health firm Circle Health.
06.06.11
An outline of the EU Commission’s rules on expenditure.
05.06.11
Private health provider Circle Health is set to float despite losing lucrative NHS contracts.
01.06.11
Scrutinising Government
The Bureau’s findings show EU Commissioners have spent millions of euros on travel, luxuries.
Our three-month long investigation shows taxpayers’ money spent on questionable items.
25.05.11
With a renewed crackdown on the opposition the Bureau asks, is Thailand ready for democracy?
Four out of six walk-in health centres created in a £50m Labour government scheme, closed.
A Labour government scheme to use the private sector in the NHS cost the taxpayer £500m.
The government is obliged to buy-back ISTC centres at a huge cost to UK taxpayers.
The DoH paid £60m compensation to private companies when contracts terminated.
Money wasted paying for operations that did not happen: the “take or pay” element.
Walk-in centres created designed to give busy workers better access to healthcare have been closed.
24.05.11
Public Sector Pay
Public sector salaries and town hall spending on the rise.
23.05.11
Iraq War Logs
The US military cleared an Apache helicopter gunship to open fire on Iraqi insurgents who were trying to surrender according to a report.
Coalition forces killed hundreds of civilians, including children and families, as checkpoint procedures failed, according to the war logs
The secret US files report widespread torture in detention facilities carried out by Iraqi authorities; but US troops were ordered merely to report, not investigate, the abuses
Three reports contained in the war logs detail allegations of British abuses of Iraqi detainees during the summer of 2008
President Bush promised an immediate stop to prisoner abuse after Abu Ghraib, but the war logs detail a stream of similar claims against coalition troops.
US soldiers found tens of thousands of bodies dumped on the streets of Iraq amid violence.
