A4e is an absolute outrage

Uploaded by chunkymark on 22 Feb 2012

A4e forced to repay public money five times after DWP found ‘irregularities’

By Rajeev Syal and Amelia Gentleman

A4e is chaired by Emma Harrison, who was appointed families tsar by the prime minister in 2010. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Four former employees have been arrested at welfare-to-work company A4e, whose chair is adviser to David Cameron

A welfare-to-work company at the centre of a criminal investigation has previously had to repay public funds on five separate occasions after government investigations into fraud allegations found evidence of “irregularities”, the Guardian can disclose.

On Monday it was revealed that four former employees of A4e had been arrested as part of an ongoing police inquiry at the company’s offices in Slough.

But it has now emerged that the company, whose chair is an adviser to David Cameron, has been investigated nine times by the Department for Work and Pensions since 2005.

In one case, fraud was proven following a criminal trial; in four inquiries, there was evidence of irregularities but it was not pursued further through the courts after money was returned; in three cases there was found to be no case to answer; and one inquiry, in Slough, is still on-going.

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