Committee of Standards and Privilages member Andrew Dismore MP has been reported to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in light of allegations about his expenses. In a letter to the Commissioner for Standards, The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics set out possible breaches of the 2003 Green Book Rules that applied at the time. A [...]

Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by Harry Cole
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Although the Kelly Report into MPs expenses was published yesterday some MPs have complained that their £65,000 a year salaries will not be enough to live on.  This is despite the Kelly Report suggesting a crackdown on expenses which the public hoped would bring an end to the MPs gravy train.  The report will reportedly [...]

Posted on November 5th, 2009 by chris
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KELLY REPORT CHECK LIST
Are the Kelly Report recommendations tough or weak?
The Sunlight Centre has broken down the potential reforms into four categories and 30 potential reforms to enable journalists to judge the toughness of the proposals. Score the report.
The check list was compiled by Juliet Samuel, the author of Disinfecting Parliament: The Shadow Kelly Report.

Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Juliet
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Read the Kelly report in full. Click here.
Sir Christopher Kelly publishes report today on MPs expenses.  Today.
Sunlight Correspondents are currently in Westminster including Juliet Samuel author of the shadow report ‘Disinfecting Parliament’ to measure the success of the Kelly report both with the media, the public and MPs (if anyone is brave enough to speak).

If [...]

Posted on November 4th, 2009 by chris
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To live up to our name of campaigning for transparency and openness we have published all the Sunlight Finances for the past quarter. These include all the donations we have received and how we have allocated and spent our supporters money. We have published the finances in to formats; one is purely the [...]

Posted on November 3rd, 2009 by chris
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