The Sunlight Centre has recieved a rapid response to our FOI request on Mr Speaker’s pay. John Bercow’s total pay is £141,647. His salary consists of £64,766 for his salary as an MP for Buckhingham and £79,754 for his salary for the office of speaker. Both these rates are agreed by the House of Commons after [...]
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by chris
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As revealed exclusively in this morning’s Daily Mail, The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics have instructed Bark and Co solicitors to prepare to prosecute the former Home Secretary for fraud.
The Sunlight COPs are now raising thousands of pounds for the case. Please donate to our cause by cheque, card or paypal here.
Here is what the Daily Mail [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Harry Cole
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The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics has reported Lord Rennard to the House of Lords Privileges Committee over his alleged misuse of House of Lords Allowances for his ’second’ home. A shame you missed us at the beach party outside your ‘holiday’ home a few weeks ago!
Rennard Headed
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by chris
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Brian Binley MP has been sent a letter by the Sunlight COPs about two claims that he made for ‘liquor’ during hotel visits – something which the parliamentary Green Book does not allow. The book only allows for ‘accommodation costs’. We have requested that Mr Binley repay this money to the taxpayer.
Brian Binley Liquor Letter [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by chris
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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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The Sunlight Centre has today written to Brian Binley, the MP for Northampton South, asking him to clarify some of the allegations raised in the Daily Telegraph expenses coverage.
In a letter to Mr Binley, Chris Galley, the Sunlight COPs new Research Director asked for a full and frank explanation in the circumstances surrounding Mr Binley renting a Pimlico flat, within walking distance from Westminster, [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Harry Cole
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Bercow, Dhanda and Cormack highest claimers
Widdercombe, Young and Cormack voted to hide their expenses and behind FOI exemption.
The upcoming election for the House of Common’s Speaker is the most important in living history. The new Speaker will be a figurehead for reforming the House and restoring the reputation of our entire parliamentary democracy in the eyes of the British public.
Posted on June 15th, 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 written [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2009 by Harry Cole
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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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