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Tribunal hearing coverage
via Your Right To Know by heather on February 25, 2008
I am expecting the final decision in my case for a detailed breakdown of MPs’ Additional Costs Allowance to be published this week, so here as background, is the media coverage from the hearing. Sam Coates, political correspondent for The Times, also very generously published his transcript of the hearing. It’s a shame the taxpayer-funded Tribunal couldn’t provide the same public service. 8...
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Tribunal orders full disclosure
via Your Right To Know by heather on February 25, 2008
Champagne all round - I won my case! Late today the Information Tribunal published its decision ordering the House of Commons to provide full disclosure of MPs’ second home expenses claims. The decision is not yet on the Tribunal’s website but you can download it here (PDF 2MB).The House is ordered to publish every claim and receipt for the MPs specified in the requests filed by myself and...
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A Commons lack of reasoning
via Your Right To Know by heather on March 26, 2008
The farce continues! In its attempt to avoid disclosing details of MPs’ expense claims, the House of Commons Commission and Speaker Michael Martin took the last-minute decision on Tuesday (March 25th 2008) to appeal the Tribunal’s ruling to the High Court. When angry MPs yesterday tried to find out the exact nature of the appeal, Speaker Martin gagged them, claiming the matter was...
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CCTV - billions of pounds of failure
via Your Right To Know by vaci on May 05, 2008
Even the police now admit that CCTV is a complete waste of money.This quote from Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville of the Metropolitan Police says it all:“CCTV was originally seen as a preventative measure. Billions of pounds has been spent on kit, but no thought has gone into how the police are going to use the images and how they will be used in court. It’s been an utter fiasco: only...
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Victory is mine!
via Your Right To Know by heather on May 15, 2008
Today was the big day and again I’ve won a complete and total victory in my campaign to make MPs directly accountable to citizens. In their judgment handed down today at the High Court, the judges agreed with an earlier Information Tribunal ruling which criticised the Additional Costs Allowance system as ‘deeply unsatisfactory’ . The judges ordered disclosure of all receipts and claims of...
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Police PR Spending
via Your Right To Know by heather on May 22, 2008
... enough to fund an extra 1,400 full time officers and more than enough to cover the annual police pay rise withheld by the Government. The force at the top of the league (Police Service Northern Ireland) spends eight times more per person on PR than the lowest (Derbyshire). Meanwhile, forces spend nearly ten times more on PR (what police want us to know) than on FOI (what we want to know). Also...
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Article: Tweaking tails
via Your Right To Know by heather on May 25, 2008
From The Sunday Times, May 25, 2008Tweaking tails: the battle to reveal MPs’ expensesBy Heather BrookeHere I am opening up another box of delights. It’s about 15 years since I last rifled through a politicians’ expenses. The first time, I was a young reporter in Washington state: I simply walked into the clerk’s office of the Legislature, asked to see the expenses and a very friendly...
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