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Firms that benefited from government furlough cash should have their names published, MPs have urged.
The Public Accounts Committee called on the Treasury to set out new transparency guidance for government support in the next six months.
But the government said it had acted at speed to help workers and firms.
Fraudsters could have benefited from the government s decision to drop basic checks in paying out Covid loans and furlough support, the committee said.
The committee said it was impossible to tell how much money had been wasted, because data issued so far had insufficient detail to allow for public scrutiny .