Sky News has learnt that the government has agreed a deal with the former sub-postmaster after handing him what he described as a "take it or leave it" offer during the spring. Sir Alan has previously said publicly that that proposal amounted to 49.2% of his original claim. One source suggested that his final settlement may have been worth between £4m and £5m, implying that Sir Alan's claim could have been in the region of £10m, although those figures could not be corroborated on Tuesday morning. A government spokesperson said: "We pay tribute to Sir Alan Bates for his long record of campaigning on behalf of victims and have now paid out over £1.2bn to more than 9,000 victims. "We can confirm that Sir Alan's claim has reached the end of the scheme process and been settled." Sky News has attempted to reach Sir Alan for comment about the settlement of his claim. Sir Alan led efforts over many years to prove that the Horizon software system supplied by Fujitsu, the Japanese technology company, was faulty. Hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, with scores of people either ending their own lives or making attempts to do so. However, it was only after ITV turned their fight for justice into a drama, Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, that the government accelerated plans to deliver redress to victims. Even so, the compensation scheme set up to administer redress has been mired in controversy. Writing in The Sunday Times in May, Sir Alan described the process as "quasi-kangaroo courts in which the Department for Business and Trade sits in judgement of the claims and alters the goalposts as and when it chooses". "Claims are, and have been, knocked back on the basis that legally you would not be able to make them, or that the parameters of the scheme do not extend to certain items." Sir Alan had previously been made compensation offers worth just one-sixth of his claim - which he had labelled "derisory", with a second offer amounting to a third of the sum he was seeking. Sir Ross Cranston, a former High Court judge, adjudicates on cases where a claimant disputes a compensation offer from the government and then objects to the results of a review by an independent panel. In 2017, Sir Alan and a group of 555 sub-postmasters sued the Post Office in the High Court, ultimately winning a £58m settlement. However, swingeing legal fees left the group with just £12m of that sum, prompting ministers to establish a separate compensation scheme amid a growing outcry. A significant number of other sub-postmasters have also complained publicly about the pace, and outcome, of the compensation process. The first volume of Sir Wyn Williams's public inquiry into the Horizon scandal was published in July, and concluded that at least 13 people may have taken their own lives after being accused of wrongdoing, even though the Post Office and Fujitsu knew the Horizon system was flawed. The miscarriage of justice left the Post Office's reputation, and that of former bosses including chief executive Paula Vennells, in tatters. A subsequent corporate governance mess under the last government further dragged the Post Office's name through the mud, with the then chief executive, Nick Read, accused of being absorbed by his own remuneration. In recent months, the government has outlined a further redress scheme aimed at compensating victims of the Capture accounting software which was in use at Post Offices between 1992 and 2000. Since then, a new management team has been appointed and has set the objective of boosting postmasters' pay and overhauling technology systems to enable Post Office branches to offer a broader range of services.

Laura Dern, Ladd's daughter who is also an actress, announced her mother's death on Monday. Ladd was a triple Academy Award nominee for her supporting roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose. She also starred in 1973 film White Lightning and HBO's Enlightened in 2011 with her daughter. Often, they played mother and daughter together. For the 1991 drama Rambling Rose they were the first, and only, mother and daughter duo to receive Oscar nominations for the same film in the same year. 'She doesn't care what anybody thinks' Ms Dern, who starred in Jurassic Park, said of her mother in 2019: "She is just the greatest actress, ever. You don't even use the word brave because she just shows up like that in life. She doesn't care what anybody thinks. "She leads with a boundarylessness." In 2023 they released a joint memoir together titled Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love. Read more from Sky News:Diane Keaton's family issue statement as cause of death givenThieves steal more than 1,000 items from museum The book was based on their conversations together during daily walks after Ladd was given only months to live, after she was diagnosed with lung disease. Ms Dern said at the time: "The more we talked and the deeper and more complicated subjects we shared, my mother got better and better and better. "It's been a great gift." Ladd was married three times and worked into her 80s.

Asked directly by our political editor Beth Rigby if she stands by her promises not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT, the chancellor declined to do so. She told Rigby: "Your viewers can see the challenges that we face, the challenges that are on [sic] a global nature. And they can also see the challenges in the long-term performance of our economy." Follow live updates from Westminster She went on: "As chancellor, I have to face the world as it is, not the world as I want it to be. And when challenges come our way, the only question is how to respond to them, not whether to respond or not. "As I respond at the budget on 26 November, my focus will be on getting NHS waiting lists down, getting the cost of living down and also getting the national debt down." 'Each of us must do our bit' Ms Reeves's comments to Rigby came after a highly unusual pre-budget speech in Downing Street in which she set out the scale of the international and domestic "challenges" facing the government. She also hinted at tax rises, saying: "If we are to build the future of Britain together, each of us must do our bit for the security of our country and the brightness of its future." Despite her promise that last year's budget - which was the biggest tax-raising fiscal event since 1993 - was a "once in a parliament event," the chancellor said that in the past year, "the world has thrown even more challenges our way," pointing to "the continual threat of tariffs" from the United States, inflation that has been "too slow to come down," "volatile" supply chains leading to higher prices, and the high cost of government borrowing. She also put the blame squarely on previous Tory governments, accusing them of "years of economic mismanagement" that has "limited our country's potential," and said past administrations prioritised "political convenience" over "economic imperative". Ms Reeves painted a picture of devastation following the years of austerity in the wake of the financial crisis, "instability and indecision" after that, and then the consequences of what she called "a rushed and ill-conceived Brexit". "This isn't about re-litigating old choices - it's about being honest with the people, about the consequences that those choices have had," she said. 'I don't expect anyone to be satisfied with growth so far' The chancellor defended her personal record in office so far, saying interest rates and NHS waiting lists have fallen, while investment in the UK is rising, and added: "Our growth was the fastest in the G7 in the first half of this year. I don't expect anyone to be satisfied with growth of 1%. I am not, and I know that there is more to do." Amid that backdrop, Ms Reeves set out her three priorities for the budget: "Protecting our NHS, reducing our national debt, and improving the cost of living." Cutting inflation will also be a key aim in her announcements later this month, and "creating the conditions that [see] interest rate cuts to support economic growth and improve the cost of living". She rejected calls from some Labour MPs to relax her fiscal rules, reiterating that they are "ironclad," and arguing that the national debt - which stands at £2.6trn, or 94% of GDP - must come down in order to reduce the cost of government borrowing and spend less public money on interest payments to invest in "the public services essential to both a decent society and a strong economy". She also put them on notice that cuts to welfare remain on the government's agenda, despite its humiliating U-turn on cuts to personal independence payments for disabled people earlier this year, saying: "There is nothing progressive about refusing to reform a system that is leaving one in eight young people out of education or employment." And the chancellor had a few words for her political opponents, saying the Tories' plan for £47bn in cuts would have "devastating consequences for our public services," and mocked the Reform UK leadership of Kent County Council for exploring local tax rises instead of cuts, as promised. Concluding her speech, Ms Reeves vowed not to "repeat those mistakes" of the past by backtracking on investments, and said: "We were elected to break with the cycle of decline, and this government is determined to see that through." 'Reeves made all the wrong choices' In response to her speech, Conservative shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride wrote on X that "all she's done is confirm the fears of households and businesses - that tax rises are coming". He wrote: "The chancellor claims she fixed the public finances last year. If that was true, she would not be rolling the pitch for more tax rises and broken promises. The reality is, she fiddled the fiscal rules so she could borrow hundreds of billions more. "Every time the numbers don't add up, Reeves blames someone else. But this is about choices - and she made all the wrong ones. If Rachel Reeves had the backbone to get control of government spending - including the welfare bill - she wouldn't need to raise taxes." He called for her to resign if she raises taxes.

Wolves' defeat at Craven Cottage followed a first-half red card to defender Emmanuel Agbadou, with Pereira subjected to chants of "you're getting sacked in the morning" by the travelling fans. The loss followed a 4-3 defeat to Chelsea in the Carabao Cup fourth round on Wednesday and left the Midlands club with only two points from their first 10 Premier League games of the season, eight points from safety. No club has ever survived with two or less points at this stage of a Premier League season. Pereira's sacking comes only 45 days after he signed a new three-year contract at Wolves despite them being bottom at the time, having lost their first four league games. How Wolves unravelled under Vitor PereiraTransfer Centre LIVE! | Wolves news: The stats that damned Pereira🐺Wolves fixtures & scores | FREE Wolves PL highlights▶️Got Sky? Watch Wolves games LIVE on your phone📱 Their poor form has continued under the former Porto boss, with Wolves the only winless side in England's top four divisions. Pereira appeared to argue with Wolves supporters after last weekend's 3-2 loss to Burnley at Molineux, with fans chanting "you're getting sacked in the morning" for the first time. Pereira was appointed by Wolves as Gary O'Neil's successor in December 2024 when they were second bottom and steered them to a 16th-placed finish, 17 points clear of the relegation zone. All eight of Pereira's backroom staff have also left the club, with Under-21 head coach James Collins and U18 head coach Richard Walker set to take training while the club finalise the appointment of a new first-team head coach. Executive chairman Jeff Shi said: "Vitor and his team worked tirelessly for Wolves and helped guide us through a challenging period last season, for which we are grateful. "Unfortunately, the start to this season has been a disappointment and, despite our strong desire to give the head coach time and matches to find an improvement, we have reached a point where we must make a change. "We thank Vitor and his staff for their efforts and wish them the very best for the future." Sacking follows 'worst' defeat Pereira was damning of Saturday's defeat to Fulham, describing it as the worst of his tenure. He said: "It was the worst, in my opinion. Today I felt my team physically were not in condition, not at the level to face Fulham. "Tactically with some mistakes, technically we were not there at the best level, we lost a lot of passes. "We conceded the first goal but after the red card it was very difficult. We need to have a conversation to understand what happened today. "I cannot come here to have answers for everyone. I must talk to my players to understand what the problem was today. I can say to you I am doing my best and working hard. I cannot control time or the confidence the club has. "But me and my staff are trying everything to help the team to perform and get results." Recruitment also in spotlight Pereira has paid the price for Wolves' dreadful start but their struggles have also put their summer recruitment in the spotlight. Wolves sold key players Matheus Cunha and Rayan Ait-Nouri to Manchester United and Manchester City respectively, while Nelson Semedo and Pablo Sarabia were among those released. Their replacements have struggled in the opening months in the season, with attacking recruits Jhon Arias, Fer Lopez and Tolu Arokodare yet to score a Premier League goal between them. Jorgen Strand Larsen, scorer of 14 goals last season, has also been poor since making his loan move from Celta Vigo permanent following interest from Newcastle in the summer. How Wolves unravelled under Pereira Sky Sports' Adam Bate: The final image of Vitor Pereira on the pitch as Wolves manager was a damning one. As the away supporters at Craven Cottage chanted for him to be sacked in the morning, there was applause for the Brazil international midfielders Andre and Joao Gomes. The pair, stood a little apart from the rest, had been dropped to the bench for the 3-0 defeat to Fulham. It was just the latest decision that had left fans bewildered, emblematic of the unravelling under Pereira that sees Wolves rooted to the bottom. The issues at Molineux, ones that leave them with two points from 10 Premier League games and odds-on favourites for relegation after eight seasons in the top division, undoubtedly run deeper than Pereira. This is a club that has been drifting for too long. It is the fourth consecutive season in which Wolves will finish the calendar year with a different head coach to the one who had taken the team in pre-season. It is the second season in a row in which they have contrived to win none of their opening 10 games. Other clubs might cope with such upheaval, able to point to an overarching strategy beyond the coach. It is difficult to make that case for Wolves given that Pereira became so central to their plans, particularly following the exit of sporting director Matt Hobbs. The appointment of Domenico Teti as director of football, a man Pereira knew from their time together at Al Shabab in Saudi Arabia, had indicated a growing level of control. The failure of this latest personnel change, just 45 days after Pereira had been rewarded with a new three-year contract, reflects badly on chairman Jeff Shi. Adam Bate examines where it went wrong for the once popular Portuguese coach at Molineux Writing was on the wall for Pereira with no league win since April Analysis by Sky Sports' Rich Morgan: I was at Craven Cottage to watch winless Wolves tamely surrender 3-0 to Fulham on Saturday, the club's eighth defeat in their opening 10 Premier League games, a limp display that Vitor Pereira called "the worst" since he replaced Gary O'Neil last December. "Today I felt my team physically were not in condition, not at the level to face Fulham," was the downbeat Portuguese's honest appraisal of his side's performance in west London. "Tactically with some mistakes, technically we were not there at the best level, we lost a lot of passes." And it seems those words, coupled with the club having just two points so far, with no side having ever stayed up having picked up two or less points after the first 10 games of a Premier League season, have stung the owners into action. Pereira was given his marching orders on Sunday morning, just 45 days after signing a new three-year contract at Molineux - reward for keeping the club in the Premier League last season after they had also begun the campaign with no wins in their opening 10 matches to eventually finish in 16th. However, following clashes with his own fans following last weekend's dramatic 3-2 home loss to Burnley, the writing appeared to be on the wall for the former Porto head coach and whoever now takes on the role faces an unenviable task trying to keep them in the top flight, with Wolves eight points from safety and without a league win since victory over Leicester City in April. The stats that damned PereiraIn addition to being bottom of the table with only two points from 10 games, Wolves have scored the joint-fewest goals (seven) and conceded the most (22).Wolves have gone 14 consecutive league matches without a win for the first time since a run of 15 winless games between February and August 2012.Wolves are the third side in Premier League history to concede 20 or more goals in their opening 10 games of consecutive seasons (27 in 2024/25, 22 in 2025/26), along with Southampton in 1998/99 (23) and 1999/00 (21) and Bournemouth in 2022/23 (22) and 2023/24 (21).Wolves have failed to win any of their opening 10 league games in both of their last two seasons (D2 L8 this season and D3 L7 in 2024/25), as many times as in their 125 previous campaigns in the top-four tiers (1926/27 and 1983/84).Wolves' next six fixturesNov 8: Chelsea (a) - Premier League, kick-off 8pm - live on Sky SportsNov 22: Crystal Palace (h) - Premier League, kick-off 3pmNov 30: Aston Villa (a) - Premier League, kick-off 2.05pm - live on Sky SportsDec 3: Nottingham Forest (h) - Premier League, kick-off 7.30pm - live on Sky SportsDec 8: Man Utd (h) - Premier League, kick-off 8pm - live on Sky SportsDec 13: Arsenal (a) - Premier League, kick-off 8pm

Ambulances arrive, patients are wheeled on stretchers, families wait pensively. Consultant Dr Anne Hicks, from Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, is with me - she's worked in emergency care for more than 30 years. There is a long pause when I ask what the hardest part of her job is. "I don't think it's looking after the trauma patients," she says. "The toughest part is talking to the relatives. I get huge satisfaction from doing it well - but I can remember the face of every relative I think I've ever spoken to." She, like many of her colleagues, has had to tell the parents of teenagers killed in car crashes the worst news. "The tragedy is nothing to what that parent feels when you tell them their child has gone. That their child has died." This is the so-called ripple effect - so many lives impacted by deaths on our roads, beyond the immediate family. Sky News has spent the last year reporting on a long-running campaign - led by grieving families - to get the government to toughen rules on new young drivers within its Road Safety Strategy, which is set to be announced soon. But as well as relatives, there is a whole other group impacted by deaths on Britain's roads. Emergency service workers are often the first to arrive at some of the most horrific and distressing scenes. We've been given access inside Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and Devon Air Ambulance - to understand how frontline workers deal with such trauma. Grant Thompson is a paramedic with the air ambulance team based at Exeter Airport. We're inside the medical stockroom, used to refill the chopper after each callout. He remembers a callout last summer. 'A shock to the system' "It was one of those jobs when you're not expecting, I suppose, what you're going to see," he says. "We started realising this was going to be a bad job. You started thinking, 'how are we going to split up as a team?' We got there reasonably quickly and three of these young people actually died at the scene, which was quite difficult. "It was trying to give the best care you can for everybody - they were quite severely injured. It's always a shock to the system when you get to those jobs. It can be tricky. It can be tricky." Those three young deaths were among more than 1,600 on Britain's roads last year - with nearly 130,000 injured. Some 22% of those fatalities involved a young person behind the wheel. New data released by the Department for Transport also shows male drivers aged 17-24 are four times more likely to be killed or seriously injured than all drivers aged over 25. Read more from Sky News:PM and chancellor hit at tax risesThe underground squad with lives in their hands Death is one thing, life-changing injuries another. Inside the major trauma unit at Derriford, ward manager Larissa Heard says she's seen the "whole scale" of reaction. "Some patients are amazingly resilient and take it really well - for others it is absolutely life-changing, and they are hysterical," she says. "This could be the first time that they're actually seeing their injuries in full light. It might be the first time that they're actually aware they've had an amputation or are actually paralysed. "So having to manage that for us can be really hard." 'It's only afterwards the impact hits you' As we chat, an 18-year-old who has lost a leg in a car crash pushes himself past us; staff say there are always victims of RTCs on the ward. Treating the physical and mental scars of collisions is, of course, their job. Like all those in the NHS, that responsibility comes first. "I don't think you feel it until you get the lovely thank-you cards at the end, and you find out the patients you looked after knew your name," says Catie Crisp, a trainee advanced clinical practitioner. "It's only afterwards the impact hits you: 'I can take a deep breath now, that was really hard, that was really emotional.'" A possible solution? Like the families who lost children, emergency workers would welcome any measure that could reduce the number of young people injured and killed. Graduated driving licences (GDLs) place restrictions on new young drivers in the first few months of driving, such as a ban on driving late at night and with a car full of people - factors so often part of fatal accidents. In Canada, one of the first countries to introduce GDLs, it takes at least 20 months to gain a full driving licence, with learners earning certain freedoms in stages. Deaths among young drivers are down 83% in the five years to 2022, compared to the same period before GDLs were brought in. For emergency consultant Dr Tim Nutbeam, introducing a similar scheme would be a step in the right direction: "I believe in evidence informed practice and for me the evidence from Canada, from other parts of the world is really strong. I believe GDL saves lives. "I've got four children. One of them in a couple of years will be driving. I as a parent will be making sure a similar structure to GDL is in place to try to keep her safe." But the Department for Transport says it is not considering them. A spokesperson told Sky News: "Every death on our roads is a tragedy and our thoughts are with everyone who has lost a loved one in this way. "Whilst we are not considering graduated driving licences, we absolutely recognise that young people are disproportionately victims of tragic incidents on our roads and continue to tackle this through our THINK! campaign. "We are considering other measures to address this problem and protect young drivers, as part of our upcoming strategy for road safety - the first in over a decade." 'They need to reconsider' For those representing emergency service workers, the government's position must change. "In my view, the evidence is overwhelming that they need to reconsider it," says Philip Secombe - the joint lead on road safety for the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners. "We need to look at not restricting our young drivers, but actually safeguarding them, and their passengers and other road users." Back at the Devon Air Ambulance base, Grant explains how the ripple effect can spread far and wide. "The loss of any life is tragic and affects a lot of people and clinicians as well, but I think when there's a young person who survives as well, they've got to walk with that for the rest of their lives, 60 odd years or whatever it'll be, that you've got to carry that with you - and more than likely it'd be one of your friends. "I just hope that shapes people's attitudes to save driving. You know, these are my mates, my best mates in the world, in my car, I need to adapt my driving to come out safe of this."

A study from King's College London has found that looking at original artworks, in a gallery, doesn't just lift us emotionally - it also has a positive impact on our physical health. Fifty people aged between 18 and 40 were shown art by a selection of leading 19th-century artists: Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, van Gogh and Gauguin. Participants viewed five paintings for three minutes each, in a 20-minute session. But while half viewed the original paintings in the Courtauld Gallery in London, the others looked at reproductions in a neutral setting. Their heart rates and skin temperature were measured with research-grade digital watches to indicate levels of interest and arousal, and saliva samples were taken with swabs before and after the session to measure stress hormones. The results in those looking at the results in the gallery were significant, and immediate: The stress hormone cortisol fell by 22% and inflammatory markers linked to health problems including heart disease, diabetes and depression were reduced by as much as 30%. No change was observed in the reproduction group. Dr Tony Woods of King's College London, who was the study's lead researcher, told Sky News: "The magnitude of the difference between being in here and looking at the real art, looking at the copies in the laboratory, the difference between the two participant groups was quite enormous." It's good news for the NHS, which is increasing its use of social prescribing, which can include visits to galleries. Dr Woods went on: "The government's health strategy is all about prevention. And this is a gift to [Health Secretary] Wes Streeting. Art is very well worth investing in because of the return on investment - it will keep people out of hospitals." Over one and a half million people in the UK accessed social prescribing between September and August this year across the UK, and NHS England told Sky News their ambition is to make it available to every person in England. Dr Woods says the next steps of the study will be to find out how long the positive effects last, and research further into the effects of art on older participants. Russell Tovey, actor, art lover and co-host of Talk Art, chatted to Sky News about his favourite piece at the gallery - van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889). Tovey jokes: "Look at this painting here. It's quite a troublesome picture, especially for me with my ears… "But you can look at the surface and the way that he makes brushstrokes and the scale of the things and the colour he used. And you think about his life at the time and where he was living, and all those questions and answers will reveal the painting." Tovey adds: "Art is intrinsic to humanity," and "shows us who we are". And now with the new findings, the hope is that gallery visits will be considered just as good as your 'five-a-day'. Tovey goes on: "It's good for your health, it's beneficial to your mental health and to your wellbeing to be in a museum and to be around art… "If you eat well, go to the gym and go to a regular art gallery visit, then your health will be through the roof." Tovey's podcast co-host, gallery owner Robert Diament, agrees: "I think it's really important just to slow down a bit. Going to a museum or gallery can be part of your self-care routine… It will improve your life." Amid rising costs, reduced funding and dwindling visitor numbers, the findings could also provide a boost to galleries. Jenny Waldman, Art Fund director, told Sky News: "These museums and galleries were set up in all cities and towns by people, you know, hundreds of years ago, who felt that it was good for people. So, this is the evidence, finally, that they were right." The national charity for museums and galleries, Art Fund champions art around the country, with initiatives including the National Art Pass which offers free or discounted entry to hundreds of museums, galleries and historic places around the UK. So, what do gallery visitors think of the news that their time looking at art will positively impact their wellbeing? Charlie, 10, from London said: "It makes me feel quite calm, and it draws me in." His dad Patrick, who had brought Charlie with his two young brothers to see the exhibition, added: "Looking at them on screens, or even in books, you just don't get the full impression." Taeseok, an arts student from Amsterdam visiting the UK for the first time, said it felt good to stand and focus on just one thing, with no distractions. He summed it up: "Things around you start to not matter at all… It's just you and the artwork." Re-framed as a course of treatment instead of an indulgent pastime, could the hard edge of science change the role galleries play in society? If so, it could be a fitting reminder to the government of the true power of art, at a time when so many institutions are struggling to survive.

Politicians are betting the house on it - but how much are they actually spending? And on what? Sky News asked consultancy Tussell, which analyses government contracts and spending, to help find out. Over £3.35bn is the overall spend by government departments on AI contracts, infrastructure and services, since the technology first really appeared on the scene in about 2018. The number of contracts has been going up each year. The biggest by far is a 2021 contract by the Met Office with Microsoft to build the world's most powerful weather and climate forecasting supercomputer, plus a few small contracts for departments to use its Copilot AI. It's worth more than £1bn overall. Another big contract is for Init - the German public transport technology company - with Transport for London, worth £259m. But this might be surprising: one of the smallest recipients is Alphabet. The company behind Google, and a massive AI investor, has just two contracts with the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Justice, worth £2.5m. Fellow US firm Palantir has lots of smaller value contracts - 25 in total, worth £376m. Its UK boss, Louis Mosley told Sky News that Palantir is helping junior doctors draft discharge summaries. And in defence, it helps intelligence officers collate information and process it more quickly. Asked whether people were right to be concerned about big AI companies coming in and using their data, he replied: "Those are very legitimate concerns, and they're right to interrogate this, but Palantir is actually the answer to those problems. We are the way you keep data secure, and we are the way you make AI transparent and auditable". 'Ministers need to be brave' However, Mr Mosley said the government could go further. "What they're saying publicly is what they're saying privately, but the challenge is always a fear of change," he said. "And in this case, you've got to embrace change. And ministers need to be brave. They need to take on the system and tell them this is the way things need to work today. "There is a lot of fear that tomorrow I'm going to have to do a different thing to what I was doing yesterday." Who's spending the most? Sky News also looked at which departments have the biggest spending on AI. They are science and technology, which has the Met Office contract, and transport with the Init deal. But the biggest, most data-intensive departments feature low down the table. The Treasury, which encompasses the taxman, and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which handles benefits, are in the bottom three. The DWP has an annual IT budget of over a billion pounds a year, yet has spent less than £100m cumulatively since 2018 on AI. Read more from Sky News:PM and chancellor hit at tax risesThe underground squad with lives in their hands Industry insiders blame a short-term government mindset, lack of IT expertise and backwards technology - up to 60% of some bits of government are running on legacy, older versions, of IT. The areas of government where a revolution could save us the most money appear largely as yet unexplored. The AI journey has barely begun.

Nottingham Forest 2-2 Man Utd INCIDENT: Man Utd's first goal comes after a dubious corner is awarded. Corner complaints for Forest for the second week running - why won't VAR intervene for corners? DERMOT SAYS: "Why has the referee made that judgment? I don't know, because if the ball does go out and he doesn't see it, I can understand that, because he has got two goal posts there. "He's got a goalkeeper, he's got [Nicolo] Savona himself in front of him, but he's made a judgment from 75 - 80 yards, incorrectly. You know, he's probably thought it's gone out, but it hasn't. "The referee, I feel for as that depth, you're not going to see. If it hit the line like that, you wouldn't give a goal." JAY BOTHROYD: "The ball's definitely not gone out, and the fact that the linesman has made a judgment call from about, what, 70 yards. The referee was closer. I know he's a bit of a different angle, but the referee was definitely closer. "It's just too far to say. But again, this is twice in two weeks now and I'm thinking to myself, well, there's goal line technology. "Maybe that can be used across the whole byline, but then obviously, they can't change the rules this year, but it's definitely something they need to look at for next year, because it will cost teams ultimately. "I think you can look at that in 10 seconds, and it will be cleared up and there will be no debate. They have enough time to look at that and make a decision." Transfer Centre LIVE! | Man Utd news & transfers🔴Man Utd fixtures & scores | FREE Man Utd PL highlights▶️Got Sky? Watch Man Utd games LIVE on your phone📱Not got Sky? Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW📺Choose the Sky Sports push notifications you want! 🔔Should Amad's equaliser at Forest have stood? INCIDENT: The ball strikes Patrick Dorgu on the arm in the build-up to Amad's equaliser at Forest, but the goal stands. Forest news & transfers🔴⚪ DERMOT SAYS: "It strikes his arm on the way through, but the rule is, has he scored? No, so he is not penalised for that. "Is it deliberate? No, it brushes his arm on the way through, so it is not a deliberate play, so the game goes on, it gets cleared and he shoots." Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa INCIDENT: Amadou Onana grabs Alexis Mac Allister by the throat in the penalty area while attacking a corner - why just a yellow? DERMOT SAYS: "The fact they were pushing and shoving each other and all right, he's raised his arm, probably a bit higher than he wanted, but he's pushing. "Stuart's got to decide, is it violent? Is it an act of brutality? He said: 'No,' he's obviously relayed to the VAR what he's seen, VAR has checked it back. The referee said, yellow card only." Liverpool news & transfers🔴| Aston Villa news & transfers🦁 JAY BOTHROYD: "As much as I like a physical game, I look at this situation, I'm like, if someone puts their hand on my throat in the street like that, you're gonna get an aggressive reaction from me. "So in that instance, I'm saying that should be a red card, because obviously Mac Allister can't do that, right? Mac Allister has made the most of it. He's gone down, right? And that's probably because if he reacts, he'll get a red card too. "So I think he's gone down there, and obviously, it's something that the official should have picked up. "But I look at that and I say that is aggressive, because again, I reiterate, if that happens off the football pitch and someone does that to you, you're going to react in a certain way, which probably be aggressive, or you're going to call HR!" Man City 3-1 Bournemouth INCIDENT: Gianluigi Donnarumma complained he was held by David Brooks as Bournemouth netted an equaliser from a corner at Man City. Man City news & transfers🔵| Bournemouth news & transfers🍒 DERMOT SAYS: "I thought it was a goal. I've seen refs take a much different approach. It's not a good punch. I don't think the forward does much wrong." JAY BOTHROYD: "If you look at Donnarumma, it looks like it's not affecting him that much. "When you look at all the players in the box, they're all nudging each other. There is contact. There is, you know, how many people are in the box? There are 20 players in there, so I don't understand why keepers want more protection. "He's six foot seven, and his span upwards would probably be about nine feet. I don't understand why he's complaining there. "He's complaining because he's punched that, but it's a bad punch and a goal has come of it. It's definitely not a foul. And I think keepers, again, I feel like they get too much protection, and in that scenario, for the referee, fantastic decision. "He should be commanding that area more. The only person I've seen say it was a foul is Guardiola. What are we saying now? It's a non-contact sport. "Brooks has definitely not fouled him. The referees have been consistent about this, and I think it's been good." Spurs 0-1 Chelsea INCIDENT: Rodrigo Bentancur avoids red for a tough challenge on Reece James. DERMOT SAYS: "I think this is one of them. If he gets sent off, VAR is not bringing him back. I think it's more red than a yellow card. "But I can understand the yellow on field. I think VAR is going to back the decision." JAY BOTHROYD: "If he does get a red card there, I say, I understand why he got it, but then after that, I can understand as well why it's a yellow card. It's an aggressive challenge. It's one of those orange card challenges." Enzo challenge 'Definitely NOT a red card' INCIDENT: Chelsea's Enzo Fernandez is only shown a yellow card despite a studs-up high challenge on Spurs midfielder Joao Palhinha. Tottenham news & transfers⚪ | Chelsea news & transfers🔵 DERMOT SAYS: "I definitely do not think this is a red card, his feet are up and it is a glancing blow, he has not gone through him, it is almost sideways. If he was in front and had gone through like that, he is in big trouble, but because of the angle he comes in at, he does not get the force or contact and so does not make the impact." JAY BOTHROYD: "I really like this decision from the ref. Enzo has tried to make an honest challenge there and just toe the ball away and as he has toe the ball away, his foot is obviously up, but his foot has hit the side of Palhinha's knee, so in that instance, it is not a reckless tackle, or a high challenge. From certain angles and a high speed, it looks a red." West Ham 3-1 Newcastle INCIDENT: West Ham have a penalty overturned by the VAR after it was deemed Malick Thiaw had got a touch on the ball first in his challenge with Jarrod Bowen. DERMOT SAYS: "Yes [right decision made], but I will also say when I first saw it I thought penalty, so I can understand why the referee [Robert Jones] first gave a penalty. When I saw the first replay, I knew it would be overturned." JAY BOTHROYD: "He has not touched the ball enough, the ball has not even changed speed, it is so minute that it should be given as a penalty, it is a crazy decision. "You cannot say every time that you touch the ball it is not a penalty. He blocked Bowen from getting to the ball, so it is a penalty!" West Ham news & transfers⚒️| Newcastle news & transfers⚫⚪ The decision took over three minutes - was that too long? DERMOT SAYS: "It was quite protracted and that is why I do not want to see more intrusion [by the VAR], it can be slicker."