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12 May 2009, Editors, Financial Director
The Idiots' Guide to Claiming MP Expenses
Actually, it's not an Idiots' Guide - it's the real thing.
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it here and compare it with your own expenses system
You've got to laugh
Or you'd cry.
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out the Daily Telegraph's Matt cartoons
No double-standards
The
Treasury Select Committee's report on bankers has just been published. (No
members of the Committee were 'named' by the Telegraph.)
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The Finance Bill
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The Budget speech Download here
The Budget Reports Download here
The Budget press notices Download here
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G20
"A global plan for recovery on an unprecedented scale"
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the London Communiqué [3 April 2009]
G whizz
"Enhancing sound regulation, promoting integrity in financial markets"
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the plan for strengthening the financial system [3 April 2009]
G plan
"Ensuring that capital continues to flow to emerging market and developing
countries"
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the plan for supporting emerging markets [3 April 2009]
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The Turner reprise
Our summary of Lord Turner's recent speech.
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our summary
The Turner speech
FSA chairman Lord Turner's recent speech on the causes of the banking crisis.
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speech
The Turner Review
Eagerly-awaited document on the future of bank regulation.
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the review
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Now is the hour
The Financial Services Authority has published the Turner review of
bank regulation.
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the review
Hold on a second
The Financial Reporting Council is looking again at the Combined Code in light
of the banking crisis and wit hregard to the Walker review.
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the call for evidence
Just a minute
The Bank of England’s latest MPC meeting minutes, released 18 March, explain how
quantitative easing will work.
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MPC minutes
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Dear Prudence
Chancellor Alistair Darling’s statement detailing the support being given to
RBS, limiting the bank’s right to claim tax losses in future and requiring it to
increase its lending to housebuyers and businesses.
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statement
Dear Paul
Fred Goodwin’s letter to Paul Myners sets out why why he won't give back some of
his pension.
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letter
Dear Fred
Paul Myners’s reply to Fred Goodwin asks him to think again.
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letter
Reader comments
Travel Expenses
Can you imagine how much money could be saved and how much more environmentally friendly our government could be - not to mention the improvement in CSR that could be made - if only somebody could write a decent travel expenses policy!
Posted by: Simone Buckley , 24 Nov 2009 | 00:00
Green Book
Vince Cable should look no further than inside Parliament to start saving money! 70 pages of expensive colour printing on glossy paper for an expenses policy and procedure ... and a short run to print as well. What a waste of taxpayers money by the former Government's team. No wonder the country is in debt when the former government had this attitude. Something in black and white on the Parliamentary website would have been more than adequate.
Posted by: D M Marler FCIS FCMA , 21 Sep 2010 | 00:00
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MPs expenses - the Green Book
The 'Green Book' on MPs expenses is surely not the same set of 'Rules' that MPs are claiming to be 'within'.
The Green Book is clear and well written but there is such a gulf between the Green Book and actual practice it may as well be work of fiction.
Whoever has allowed this state of affairs to develop, Mr Speaker, ought to be charged with aiding and abetting fraud.
Posted by: Clive Weston , 01 Jun 2009 | 00:00