G4S chief Nick Buckles will face MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee today. Here are some key questions they will want to ask him about the security firm’s handling of staffing for the Olympics:
1. When did you start processing applications from potential staff?
G4S launched its recruitment drive at the end of January, and just days later told the press it had been swamped by 20,000 applications. Ministers say they were repeatedly assured that the firm would overshoot its targets. So why did it take so long to realise that those 20,000 applications were not going to translate into 10,000 staff?
2. When did you realise that you were not going to meet your targets?
Theresa May told MPs yesterday that the Government had only been notified by G4S that it would not meet its targets last Wednesday.
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