Home Office claims to own all the money in the universe
Posted on Thursday, March 1st, 2007 by Home Office WatchCategory: Departmental Administration
The Home Office briefly believed it owned all the money in the UK, world, and presumably the rest of the universe, a report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee has shown.
The report on the department’s accounts for 2004 to 2005 details a financial shambles at the department which have still not been signed off by an auditor nearly 18 months after year-end.
The summary of the report unsurprisingly adds that one factor behind the fiasco were problems with its new accounting system.
One paper submitted by the Home Office mistakenly suggested its gross transactions were £26,527,108,436,994 - or £27 trillion. This is not just 2,000 times the department’s 2004-2005 expenditure, but one and a half times the GDP of the entire planet.
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March 3rd, 2007 at 10:17 am
Michael Brown. Repeat until embarassed.
March 7th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Actually, Michael Brown’s prosecution is a rare example of a Home Office success, stevie.