Entries from Parliamentary Connections old tagged with 'Expenses'
Retiring MPs will see a huge exodus of experience from the House of Commons at the election
Image via WikipediaThe next House of Commons will be a very different place. So far, almost 150 MPs have announced that they are not standing at the election, more than at anytime since before the Second World War. Rumours suggest...
Some MPs still don't get what needs to be done to put the expenses scandal behind them
There are many honest, hardworking MPs. There. I've said it and I know it to be true.Sadly, there are also far too many who have been exploiting a woefully inadequate system for dealing with the many challenges and legitimate costs...
Back to Westminster and it is as if the summer never happened
If ever there was a day when this discredited and demoralised Parliament - and that includes the government - should have realised that its number was up, yesterday was it.The long summer break, the party conferences, the certainty of a...
The EU is now out in front in the race to reform financial services regulation
It looks as if the initiative in reforming the regulation of the financial services sector has slipped out of Gordon Brown's grasp. For a brief moment after the G20 Summit in April the Prime Minister was setting the agenda and...
Daily Telegraph's expenses spotlight falls on John Greenway
It seems that very few MPs will escape without having to do some explaining in the wake of the Daily Telegraph's continued sifting through the minutiae of their expenses claims over the last four years. Among the latest to blush...
MPs are fast losing the plot in their attempts to excuse the mess they have made for themselves
I was going to leave the subject of MPs' expenses alone for a few days at least but I can't let Nadine Dorries' hysterical outburst today pass without comment.Quite simply, Methinks she doth protest too much.I can understand her point...
Viggers' duck house brings the curtain down on a distinguished career but raises the stakes in the body-strewn political battlefield
I suppose it was inevitable that one of the long-standing members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance & Financial Services would be caught in the expenses scandal and it happened last night when the Daily Telegraph revealed that...
Little hope on Equitable Life front
The debate on Equitable Life in Westminster Hall yesterday offered precious little hope of a speedy or satisfactory resolution to the problems caused by the collapse of the mutual insurer. It must make thoroughly depressing reading for the one million...
Government is to be put on the spot over Equitable Life
The former shadow home secretary David Davis has secured a 90 minute Westminster Hall debate next Tuesday (19 May at 11am) on the government's response to the latest Parliamentary Ombudsman's report on Equitable Life.The debates in Westminster Hall are one...
MPs' expenses greed is shocking but we need to get over it
It is clear from the leaked information on the expense claims of ministers in the Daily Telegraph this morning that MPs are in for several weeks of constant, almost humiliating scrutiny of their financial affairs. It is hard to have...
MPs need the shake-up, not their expenses
I have been watching the current frenzy over stories of MPs expenses with a growing sense of despair. We are already facing a crisis because of the lack of respect for politicians and political processes in this country which is...
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