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Expenses cheat Lord spent £286,000 on Essex Council credit card
Keeping the Lord’s end up Back in 2011, Lord Hanningfield was sentenced to nine months in prison and ordered to pay back £30,000 for falsely claiming £14,000 in parliamentary expenses. However, this is allegedly ‘small potatoes’ compared to what he … Continue reading
MPs property expenses exposes policy loophole
MPs: Are they still at it? A couple of weeks ago we pointed out that the MPs expenses scandal had a very long tail. Well it seems that it may have developed a bit of a sting as well! On … Continue reading
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Expense On Demand vs MPs expenses fraud
MPs expenses scandal has a very long tail As much as MPs, Parliament and probably the public would like to draw a heavy and final line under the MPs expenses fiasco, the story has shown that it has a very … Continue reading
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Civil servants’ expenses increase in times of austerity
Civil servants spent £1.15 billion of taxpayers’ money on credit cards last year, up from £987million in the previous financial year. This is an increase of more than £160 million since David Cameron pledged to cut such spending on Government … Continue reading
The story of the Canadian Minister, a limo and the Savoy.
Canada is a land of contrasts; a big country with a relatively small population; distinctly North American in some ways, it wraps French descended Quebecois and British with newer waves of cultural influence. It seldom makes waves on the international … Continue reading
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MPs expenses scandal not over yet
Named, shamed, convicted and sent down, we thought that one of the most notorious expenses scandals of recent times was done and dusted. Not so! The scandal continues as it emerges that David Chaytor, Elliot Morley and Jim Devine, the … Continue reading
