Details about how Jersey government officials sent a £1 million payment twice by mistake are being withheld.

Last year’s States accounts mention a “duplicate” £1 million payment, which was recovered, but then triggered an internal audit review.

That review found States money could be lost or paid out inaccurately.

Reported by BBC News. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.