Serco ‘self-cleaned’, says ministry

But peers say it’s justice ministers who should have come clean

The Ministry of Justice has been criticised by a House of Lords committee for not disclosing that a company awarded an electronic tagging contract worth at least £200 million was fined £19.2 million as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Serious Fraud Office and ordered to repay the government more than £70 million.

In 2019, Serco Group gav…