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Public Accounts Committee publishes its report on FiReControl: an update

The Public Accounts Committee publishes its 16th Report of this Session which, on the basis of evidence from the Department for Communities and Local Government, examining the progress in minimising waste from the FiRecontrol project and achieving the original objectives through other means.

 

The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, yesterday said:

 

“The original FiReControl project was one of the worst cases of project failure we have seen and wasted at least £482 million of taxpayers' money.

“Three years after the project was cancelled, the DCLG still hasn’t decided what it is going to do with many of the specially designed, high-specification facilities and buildings which had been built. Four of the nine regional control centres are still empty and look likely to remain so.

“The Department has now provided fire and rescue authorities with an additional £82 million to implement a new approach based on 22 separate and locally-led projects.

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