BBCNEWS BBC July 3, 2024
that time, there was notjust the furlough scheme but also grants administered by local authorities, now because there was a fear that so many businesses fell over, speed was prioritised over the normal anti—fraud controls, you can't be bothered with the normal underwriting if you need to get the money out by the day, by the week, and so there were 20 people looking after this at the department for business enterprise and innovation and skills at the time, just 20 people, throwing money out there, so for example, there were 6 billion distributed injust for example, there were 6 bill...