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• A bad time for more lavish expenses | Gaby Hinsliff

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The latest MPs expenses bill may be a drop in a multibillion- pound ocean of debt, but it doesnt look good to voters Perhaps they hoped journalists would be distracted from all those piffling receipts by the labyrinthine work of unpicking the pre-budget report . Or perhaps, for reasons unclear, the government ...
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• Brit defence minister claimed 20,700-pounds of taxpayers money to fix bell tower

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec. 11 (ANI): Quentin Davies, a British defence minister, claimed thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to fix a bell tower and roof on his country home, according to the parliament’s website. As a new slew of receipts heaped more humiliation on MPs, it emerged that Davies, the Labour MP for Grantham ...
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• Uproar in Lok Sabha over AIIMS status

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) There was an uproar in Lok Sabha Friday over the government’s stance on the Valiathan Committee report that looked into the functioning of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the premier medical institution based in Delhi.During question hour, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MP ...
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• Andhra MPs say PM in no hurry over Telangana (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said no hasty decision will be taken on the issue of a separate Telangana state, say Congress MPs from the Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions who met him Friday.As many as 20 Congress MPs, including union ministers, led by party leader K.S. Rao met [...]
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• MPs expenses: Sweeping up

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Three MPs claimed for work on chimneys in 2008-09. John Gordon of Alfa Chimney Services describes the service they might have had Ive been doing this 30 years and Ive never cleaned an MPs chimney, at least, not that I am aware of. Ive done famous people, actors and the like – but it is always the same price. For a ...
  5 hours ago

• MPs expenses: George Osbornes oversight

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Shadow chancellor had claims knocked back after overclaiming by £51.07 He hopes to take charge of the nations annual £676bn spending, but it turns out that George Osborne appears not to be in total command of the £24,006 he claims every year on his constituency home in Tatton, Cheshire. The shadow chancellor had ...
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• Speaker John Bercow hails superior new MPs expenses system

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Yesterdays release of thousands of documents shows greater openness and transparency after reforms, says John Bercow John Bercow, the Speaker of the Commons, today hailed the "vastly superior" expenses regime for MPs, claiming the publication of thousands of receipts was leading to greater openness and transparency. ...
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• Daily View 2×2: 11 December 2009

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 506
  Welcome to December 11th – only 20 days to go until the end of the year. Four years ago today the top story was the fire at the Buncefield oil depot which injured 43 people and was said to have been the biggest fire of its kind in peacetime Europe. 2 Must-Read Blog Posts What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers ...
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• CHURUMURI POLL: Separate statehood for Coorg?

  
  churumuri — Authority: 428
  View This Poll polls There are three visible dangers from the manner in which the process of statehood for Telangana has been initiated overnight. One, it will act as a spur for other claimants to ramp their demands for statehood, legitimate and otherwise. Two, K. Chandrashekhar Rao ’s fast unto death will ...
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• Alan Bollard talks to the Finance and Expenditure Committee about monetary policy, the OCR’s effectiveness and the NZ economy

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard appears before Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee following the RBNZ’s December Monetary Policy Statement.
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• Parliament set for holiday recess

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 166
  Parliament was to begin its holiday recess Friday with MPs scheduled to return to the House on Jan. 25.
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• MPs With Bell Towers.

  
  ModernityBlog — Authority: 475
  Once the Labour Party became home for careerist Tory MPs then anything is possible, but in the past could you imagine Labour MP with a stately home? Or better still a bell tower? That charming Oxbridge chappie, Quentin Davies is the culprit. More frivolous claims (or genuine mistakes if you believe comrade ...
  10 hours ago

• RBNZ’s Bollard talks at MPS press conference about the rates outlook, house prices, mortgage rates and Christmas

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 575
  Here is the full press conference at the Reserve Bank in Wellington on December 10, 2009 following the release of the RBNZ’s December quarter Monetary Policy Statement. The Reserve Bank left the Official Cash Rate at 2.5%, but indicated that it may be prepared to increase the rate around the middle of 2010, as ...
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• A self-inflicted humiliation

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The running battle now underway between the elected political class and the permanent government of officials and quangocrats took a fresh turn today when Gordon Brown staged a further capitulation over MPs pay and expenses in response to a fresh flurry of revelations. Conservative MPs took grim comfort on learning ...
  14 hours ago

• Legislation will let watchdog dock errant MPs expenses claims

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • More power for Commons standards watchdog • Changes to hasten ideas from overlooked review The government has announced legislation to sharpen the teeth of the Commons parliamentary standards watchdog, enabling it to dock the allowances of errant MPs and bring members of the public on to parliamentary ...
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• Still stuck in the stocks | Austin Mitchell

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Unhappy days are here again. In the fun factory we MPs are under extraordinary rendition and subject to regular doses of waterboarding. The latest began todaywith the publication of our allowance claims for the year up to April to add to the four years of greedy guzzle chronicled by the Daily Telegraph. This will then ...
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• Labour MP Eric Joyce had expense claims frozen

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A Labour MP was pursued by the Commons authorities and forced to repay nearly £5,000 in "non-parliamentary" travel expenses to Tokyo, Kinshasa and Nairobi after he ignored their demands for repayment. Eric Joyce, the MP for Falkirk who is already known for receiving the most expenses of any MP in Britain, was told ...
  17 hours ago

• MPs expenses: Gordon Brown repays £500 bill for summerhouse

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • PM admits painting claim could be questionable • String of calls to mystery number on open BT line Gordon Brown responded to the furore over MPs expenses by deciding on his own initiative to pay back £500 for the "questionable" painting of a summerhouse in the garden of his Fife home. As the latest batch of ...
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• Davies the star in Spot the Chisellers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Quentin Davies insists the bell tower is an integral part of the roof in a defensive statement about his expenses claim The question is, can you see Douglas Hoggs moat from Quentin Daviess bell tower? As neighbouring Lincolnshire MPs, the pair boast two of the more recherché politically notable architectural ...
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• The bell tower tolls

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Telegraph View: An unwelcome addition to the moat and the duck house
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