TUESDAY 10AM Next Tuesday 30th March, 3 MPs and one Lord will attend the first formal day of their trial for fraud or false accounting. This is the culmination of many months’ outrage, investigation and fury at our parliamentarians’ rank abuse of the expenses system. Hundreds have promised to turn out in protest and the [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2010 by Sunlight Team
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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 Sunlight Team
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The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics has reported Jim Devine MP to the Metropolitan Police with regard to his parliamentary expenses on 20th June 2009. This includes the work completed on the shelves and rewiring that Mr Devine subsequently claimed for via a company that did not have a valid VAT number. Below is the [...]
Posted on June 21st, 2009 by chris
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Shahid Malik MP was today reported to the Parliamentary Commission for Standards. In a letter to John Lyon the Commissioner, the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics stated that despite being cleared of breaching the Ministerial Code by Sir Philip Mawer, it has subsequently emerged that Mr Malik is unable to provide any receipts or a [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2009 by Sunlight Team
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Submission to the Committee on the Standards in Public Life Review on MPs’ Expenses
Posted on June 9th, 2009 by chris
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I would like to introduce myself as the new Research Director of the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics. Some of you may already be aware of my former role as the civil servant involved in the ‘Greengate’ affair last November. If I had not been dismissed from that post I would never have been offered [...]
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by chris
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Posted on June 4th, 2009 by chris
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Posted on June 4th, 2009 by chris
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Posted on June 4th, 2009 by chris
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The lobbyist at the centre of the police investigation into Peter Hain’s mysterious campaign funding is the subject of a complaint to the Association of Professional Political Consultants for ethics breaches. This is the second complaint made to the self regulatory association after Morgan Allen Moore threatened action for libel against the first complainant – [...]
Posted on June 4th, 2009 by chris
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