A private company was paid tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' cash to help the Home Office deal with crises - including a "complex critical incident"Home Secretary Priti Patel’s department used taxpayers’ cash to hire a private crisis management company to help them deal with ‘incidents’ last year, the Sunday Mirror can reveal. Black Dog Crisis Management was hired in March 2020 to deliver a “debriefing exercise” with staff in the department at a cost of £16,000. The Home Office has refused to identify which crises the firm was brought in to deal with. Nick Thomas-Symonds, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary said: “The Home Secretary must urgently explain how she reached a situation where she had to spend taxpayers’ money on a private crisis management company. Crisis management firm Black Dog is owned by Rob Doran, a former civil servant who formerly worked at the Cabinet Office.

Source: Daily Mirror September 11, 2021 16:41 UTC