Conduct Of Ed Balls And Yvette Cooper

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215523679

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Conduct of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

This report from the Committee on Standards and Privileges examines a complaint made against Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper that they may have incorrectly identified their home for the purpose of claims against the Additional Costs Allowance for the cost of their second home. They had claimed their main home to be in Castleford when it appeared that their children went to school in London and that the main home designation had changed from London to Yorkshire in the past few years. The report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is reproduced in an appendix: it dismisses the complaint, finding that the two MPs made reasonable decisions on the basis of their own circumstances in declaring their property in Castleford to be their main home. The Commissioner, though, draws attention to the wider issue raised by this case. The issue turns on the interpretation of the rules in the Green Book on Parliamentary Salaries, Allowances and Pensions on means of identifying the main home, and the Commissioner endorses the principle that a main home should normally be where more nights are spent than in any other residence. There are circumstances where this normal test is not appropriate, and the Commissioner's observations on these matters will be addressed by the Committee in a later report.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215524101

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Conduct of Mr Mark Hunter by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

This report responds to a complaint arising from a survey relating to local National Health Service (NHS) services in Mr Hunter's constituency of Cheadle and carried out by Mr Hunter and funded from his Communications Allowance (CA). There were three elements to the complaint: that the survey contained material that should not have been included in a CA funded survey; that it should not have been circulated outside the constituency; and that publicity for the survey in a newsletter funded and circulated by his local party in one part of his constituency amounted to exploitation of the survey for party political purposes. The Committee agree with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards that the survey included an incorrect imprint which suggested that it was party rather parliamentary in origin and that the CA should not have been used to distribute the survey outside Mr Hunter's constituency. They also agreed that, by themselves, the breaches were not so serious as to cause us to conclude that his survey should not have been funded from the CA

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215070690

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House of Commons - Committee on Standards: Maria Miller - HC 1179 by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards Pdf

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215554957

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Nadine Dorries by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

The Committee has received from the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards the report (included as an appendix in this report) of his investigation of a complaint made in June 2009 against Nadine Dorries, the Member for Mid Bedfordshire. The complainant, Mr Michael Barnbrook, who at the time was a law and order spokesman for the British National Party, told the Commissioner that in his view Ms Dorries had breached the rules of the Additional Cost Allowance by claiming second home expenses in respect of her constituency home, which Mr Barnbrook said was in fact her main home. The Commissioner found that the constituency home was not Ms Dorries' main home, and did not uphold the complaint. Whilst investigating the complaint, the Commissioner also found that Ms Dorries had breached the rules by failing to notify the Department of Resources of two changes to the address of her main home. The Commissioner does not regard this breach as serious. The Committee agree with the Commissioner's findings.

Author : House of Commons Committee on Standards
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0215524942

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Ms Dari Taylor by House of Commons Committee on Standards Pdf

This is the 18th report from the Committee on Standards and Privileges (HCP 1188, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780215524942) on a complaint against Ms Dari Taylor MP, for Stockton South. The complaint against Ms Taylor, by Mr James Wharton of Stockton South Conservatives, concerned the possible misuse of stationery and postage provided by Parliament, for letters sent between August and October 2007. In total, six letters were sent, with the Parliamentary Commissioner reaching a separate conclusion for each letter, as to whether the letters represented an allowable use of Incidental Expenses Provision and of House of Commons stationery and postage. The case against two letters was dismissed. The Commissioner concluded that in three cases, official House of Commons stationery provided by the House and pre-paid envelopes were misused, and that in a fourth case, official House of Commons stationery purchased by Ms Taylor was misused. The Committee therefore agrees with the Commissioner's conclusions. The Committee further concluded, that they strongly deprecated the continued misuse by Ms Taylor of House stationery for political purposes and also expresses regret that Ms Taylor has continued to dispute parts of the Commissioner's findings and has offered no apology. In conclusion, the Committee states Ms Taylor should pay the House authorities the sum of £500 and sunmit an unequivocal written apology.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215525256

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Use of Pre-paid Envelopes and Official Stationery by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

Use of pre-paid envelopes and official Stationery : Nineteenth report of session 2007-08, report and appendix, together with formal Minutes

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215525434

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Premature Disclosure of Select Committee Papers by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

This report, (HCP 1212, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780215525437), contains conclusions on two cases referred to the Committee on Standards and Privileges by other committees of the House. The first case involved the unauthorised disclosure of two papers prepared for the European Scrutiny Committee by its legal adviser on the mandate for the inter-governmental conference which led to the Lisbon Treaty, and appeared in an article in the Daily Telegraph on 26 June 2007. The second involved the unauthorised disclosure of parts of a draft report prepared for the Home Affairs Committee on the Government's counter terrorism proposals which appeared in the Financial Times on 5 December 2007. The Standards Committee accepts the view that the disclosure of such internal committee papers constituted a substantial interference in their work.

Author : Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32435076872860

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The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue by Stationery Office (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : U K Stationery Office
Publisher : Stationery Office Annual Catal
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0115010505

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The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue 2008 by U K Stationery Office Pdf

No public library discount on this title.

Author : Susan Millns,Noel Whitty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135345549

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Feminist Perspectives on Public Law by Susan Millns,Noel Whitty Pdf

Feminist scholarship can provide public lawyers with the critical tools and insights to respond to these new challenges. This collection begins a dialogue between public law and feminism by offering a range of perspectives on contemporary public law themes and topics.

Author : Simon Kuper
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782838180

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Chums by Simon Kuper Pdf

Now with a new chapter on the end of the chumocracy era - and Oxford's upcoming elite for 2050. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very small world at the top. 'Brilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s' James O'Brien 'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters' Matthew Parris 'A sparkling firework of a book' Lynn Barber, Spectator 'Exquisite and depressing in equal measure' Matthew Syed, Sunday Times Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black tie dinners. They aren't just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when they walked out of the world of student debates onto the national stage, they brought their university politics with them. Thirteen of the seventeen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford University. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of this narrowest of talent pools - and the friendships and worldviews it created - shaped modern Britain. A damning look at the university clique-turned-Commons majority that will blow the doors of Westminster wide open and change the way you look at our democracy forever.

Author : Chris Mullin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847651860

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A View From The Foothills by Chris Mullin Pdf

'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris Mullin Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for example - he has held several prominent posts. To the apoplexy of the whips, he was for a time the only person appointed to government who voted against the Iraq War. He also chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee and was a member of the Parliamentary Committee, giving him direct access to the court of Tony Blair. Irreverent, wry and candid, Mullin's keen sense of the ridiculous allows him to give a far clearer insight into the workings of Government than other, more overtly successful politicians. He offers humorous and incisive takes on all aspects of political life: from the build-up to Iraq, to the scandalous sums of tax-payers' money spent on ministerial cars he didn't want to use. His critically acclaimed diary will entertain and amuse far beyond the political classes.

Author : Florence Faucher-King,Patrick Le Galés
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804776219

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The New Labour Experiment by Florence Faucher-King,Patrick Le Galés Pdf

The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997–2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Galès argue that New Labour, in contrast to its European counterparts, developed a right-wing economic policy program based upon light financial regulation and strict macroeconomic management. Blair and Brown developed a large controlling bureaucracy, making Britain's government one of the most centralized in the world. While some progressive policies were implemented, Faucher-King and Le Galès point to an overarching program of authoritative controls, massive surveillance, and illiberal social policies. Profound reforms were therefore linked to a new bureaucratic revolution that has subsequently been rejected by the British people. According to the authors, the financial crisis and the collapse of part of the banking system have signaled the end of the New Labour project.

Author : Yvette Cooper
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786499950

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She Speaks by Yvette Cooper Pdf

A powerful celebration of brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Boudica to Greta Thunberg. ' A treasure trove of trailblazers...' Cathy Newman Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is the preserve of men. But the truth is very different - countless brave and bold women have used their voices to inspire change, transform lives and radically alter history. In this timely and personal selection of exceptional speeches, Yvette Cooper MP tells the rousing story of female oratory. From Boudica to Greta Thunberg and Margaret Thatcher to Malala, Yvette introduces each speech and demonstrates how powerful and persuasive oratory can be decidedly female. Written by one of our leading public voices, this is an inspirational call for women to be heard across the globe.

Author : David Craig,Matthew Elliot
Publisher : Constable
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472112248

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Fleeced! by David Craig,Matthew Elliot Pdf

Over the past decade some £3 trillion - equivalent to £50,000 for every person in Britain - has been taken from us by the ruling elites. Half was wasted in a splurge of poorly-managed public spending in the 'boom', while the other half evaporated in the 'bust' - siphoned off by city bonuses, vaporised by a collapse in pension savings and extorted to bail out the banking sector. In their explosive new book, David Craig and Matthew Elliott trace where the money has gone and who has become richer as a result. They name and shame the 'guilty': the incompetent bureaucrats that fail to deliver the services the taxpayer deserves; the multitude of ineffective regulators and watchdogs; the politicians that have betrayed our democracy and enriched themselves; and the self-serving and arrogant city bankers. Moreover, they calculate the enormous debt that awaits the British taxpayer as a result of our rulers' avarice and economic mismanagement. Fleeced! charts the greatest impoverishment and tax swindle of the public in British history.