The Crown Prosecution Service said “Two charges under section 17 of the Theft Act 1968 for false accounting have been brought against Jim Devine MP. The first charge alleges that between July 2008 and April 2009, Mr Devine dishonestly claimed £3,240 for cleaning services using false invoices. The second charge alleges that in March 2009, [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2010 by Harry Cole
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The Sunlight Centre have today reported Gordon Brown to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner:
Posted on January 18th, 2010 by Harry Cole
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Juliet Samuel, Sunlight’s Research Analyst, has written to Labour MP Sion Simon to request details of a rental agreement under which he was paid £44,000 by the Fees Office. Simon claims he paid this money to his sister in rent and has since agreed to pay back £20,000. But without a published copy of the [...]
Posted on January 5th, 2010 by Juliet
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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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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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Former Home Office minister Tony McNulty is ordered to repay almost £14,000 after claiming a second home allowance for his parents’ house. The Commons standards and privileges committee ruled that Mr McNulty breached Commons rules by making a claim for expenses that were,
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“not wholly and exclusively incurred in connection with his parliamentary duties”
“had [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2009 by chris
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The Sunlight Centre Complaint regarding Lord Renard’s designation of his second home has been turned down by the Clerk of the Parliaments.
Peers accused of abusing their expenses have been given the green light to carry on claiming. They include peers who have been accused of raking in large sums from the taxpayer based on dubious [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by chris
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The Sunlight Centre has today called for MPs to comply with the Sir Thomas Legg inquiry into use of the accommodation allowance and pay back money that was wrongfully claimed for the maintenance of second homes.
In particular, we have written to Jacqui Smith MP whom, you might remember, we referred to the Paraliamentary Commissioner for [...]
Posted on October 12th, 2009 by Juliet
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The Sunlight Centre had we hope to be an annual event at the Conservative Party Conference on the 6th October in The Freedom Zone. We would like to thank the Freedom Zone team of Simon Richards, Jane Broadhurst and all their volunteers based in the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester for the smooth running of the [...]
Posted on October 7th, 2009 by chris
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Sunlight Centre Event Tuesday 6th October 14:15 – 15:15 – Barborolli Room, THE FREEDOM ZONE, The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS
‘DISINFECTING PARLIAMENT’
Panel Discussion on the Shadow Report into MP’s expenses
The Sunlight Centre released an independent report on the 21st September, with a foreword by Douglas Carswell MP, laying out a system [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2009 by chris
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