Offender tagging: Serco to repay more than £68m in overcharging
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The outsourcing firm Serco has agreed to repay £68.5m plus VAT after overcharging on its contract to provide electronic tagging of offenders, the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, hasdisclosed .
The scale of overcharging – which included invoicing for the tagging of offenders who were not being monitored, some of whom were already back in prison or had died – is several times larger than previously thought. The original figure was believed to be £15m-£20m for the contracts held by both Serco and the security company G4S; the latter has yet to reach agreement on how much it will repay.