Ditched government projects lost taxpayer £6.6bn last year, watchdog says

Politics The Guardian By Tom Knowles 22 May 2026 05:00 1 min read

Spending committee finds MoD most wasteful and also points to cancelled schemes such as Rwanda and Stonehenge Cancelled government projects such as the Rwanda deportation scheme and the road tunnel under Stonehenge are wasting billions of pounds of taxpayer money a year, parliament’s spending watchdog has found. About £6.6bn was written off by government departments last year alone – state spending that did not achieve its intended objectives or create any value for the taxpayer, the public acco

Spending committee finds MoD most wasteful and also points to cancelled schemes such as Rwanda and Stonehenge

Cancelled government projects such as the Rwanda deportation scheme and the road tunnel under Stonehenge are wasting billions of pounds of taxpayer money a year, parliament’s spending watchdog has found.

About £6.6bn was written off by government departments last year alone – state spending that did not achieve its intended objectives or create any value for the taxpayer, the public accounts committee said.

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