If their salaries were lower, putting them in the median people would be much more understanding
of expenses claims for second homes, travel and entertaining.
The latest details of
expenses claimed by MPs under the controversial second homes allowance have been made public.
Some years, his Parliamentary expense records are only 20 pages long — compared
with expense claims of more than 90 pages for some of his colleagues.
But he says he will repay any money if the party's internal scrutiny panel - which is looking at all
MPs expenses claims - asks him to.
In a fire loss, for instance, you could make a personal property and an additional
living expense claim, and the policy would properly sort out recovering what was paid.
In addition to the completed claim form, we need documentation from the common carrier confirming the delay and length of delay and purchase receipts for additional
expenses claimed due to luggage delay.
He was convicted on all four charges against him, covering 57 fraudulent
travel expenses claims worth # 1.2 m over four years.
You may not like this guy but I don't think his claim is any worse than some of the
other expense claims I have read about.
We also assist our clients in making or defending both claims for extensions of time and loss and
expense claims arising from delay or disruption.
The enhanced product includes an increased limit of $ 40,000 per policy term for all identity
theft expense claims.
The amount of
expenses claimed by MPs without invoices or receipts is to be cut from # 250 to # 25 from the beginning of the next financial year.
They'll ask you for information about the items that suffered the loss, any additional
living expense claim you might need to make, and how the loss occurred.
Often times, business owners try to use
business expense claims to offset their own personal expenses, which can be very bad for your business.
On the day letters are sent out to MPs raising questions
over expenses claims, a report by the Commons standards and privileges committee orders former home secretary Jacqui Smith to apologise for breaching rules on second home expenses.
Ex-Labour MP Jim Devine, who was jailed for 16 months for making false
expenses claims in 2011, was reported to have had a parliamentary pass that year.
Jones has strongly advocated the publication of all MPs» expenses and publishes her own
expense claims on her website each month.
In the last five years, a lawmaker was convicted of taking bribes from a carnival promoter, another filed thousands of dollars in
expense claims for days he never even went to Albany.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has opened an inquiry
into expense claims by the Culture Secretary Maria Miller.
Graph 6 shows predicted probabilities from two simple OLS regressions, one with the MP's percentage of budget spent as the dependent variable and one with the MP's total
expenses claimed as the outcome variable.
Now Laws is a government backbencher, facing investigation for
expenses claims which may have broken parliamentary rules, and outed by a newspaper investigation as a closet homosexual.
I do an annual examination of the three MPs in RCT and unlike Anne Clwyd (Cynon but doesn't live in her constituency) who has some well dodgy
expense claims including curtains for her third home in Abergynolwyn, and Chris Bryant (who swaps his home address to maximise expense income claiming it's because he's gay), the claims of Owen Smith is perfect.
The committee cleared her of the central charge of deliberately
submitting expenses claims to which she was not entitled, but said she had breached the ministers» code of conduct by providing «incomplete documentation and fragmentary information» to the inquiry.
Baroness Warsi has asked the Lords Commissioner for Standards to investigate allegations she made
improper expense claims.
The Speaker had come under fire for his
own expenses claims in the past, but it was his reaction to the allegations levied against others that provoked harsh criticism.
The Westminster parliament had been due to
publish expenses claims of all 646 MPs dating back to 2004 in July last year.
The Commons Committee on Standards ordered the Culture Secretary to repay # 5,800 to cover over-claiming of mortgage expenses but cleared her of making
false expenses claims.
This is why the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) was set up to do the job for them: to repair parliament's reputation and implement a fair package of pay would tackle the unacceptable nod - and - a-wink system of
dodgy expense claims which had been tacitly supported by successive governments and opposition party leaderships over the years.
Over the past four days, the Telegraph has published a series of articles detailing questionable
expense claims made by MPs from all political parties, including members of the Cabinet and shadow cabinet.
Therefore, if one garners ten deals per year that close via Zoocasa leads (over and above the twelve deals that one must have already closed on a yearly basis in order to be annointed by Zoocasa) one therefore expenses a huge 10 X 35 % of gross commission per deal amount against one's total gross income, as well as expensing the normal advertising expenditures incurred for the previous twelve deals etc. with the grand
total expense claim possibly being much more than is allowed by Rev. Can.
Ms Butler (by contrast) attacked Ms Teather with lies about her behaviour, an expense fiddling «hypocrite», and in circumstances where the boot (more than # 66,000 claimed for one of two homes owned in London, equally close to the Commons and a record of
expenses claims rejected by the Fees Office) was firmly on the other foot.
As the Conservatives published details of 45 MPs» repayments on
questionable expenses claims, the prime minister attended an event at the Labour party's headquarters where he called for politics to be cleaned up «once and for all».
The reputation of Canada's unelected Senate is in tatters after
controversial expense claims by four senators - three Conservative appointees and one Liberal appointee.
Cameron can only survive damaging Tory
expenses claims if he insists that offenders pay back the money immediately, while publicly admitting that they over-stepped the mark - no excuses.
Shortly before his election he agreed to pay back more than # 6,000 in
previous expenses claims, including nearly # 1,000 claimed for accountancy advice.
Today's cache of
expense claims revealed the Speaker spent # 210 on postcards of himself to send to people who wrote to him.
Luton South has attracted an unusually high number of independents, including local broadcaster Stephen Rhodes, after Labour MP Margaret Moran was suspended from the Labour party for especially
outrageous expenses claims.
A Labour MP has urged the Metropolitan Police to look into Maria Miller's
expenses claims following yesterday's report from the parliamentary standards watchdog.
This follows a special supplement in the latest edition of Private Eye containing all sorts of allegations and revelations about the CDC's work in recent years, including huge
personal expense claims which seem out of place for a body which is meant to assist development in the third world.
A state assemblyman from Queens says the FBI has raided his home, hotel and offices in an investigation of his
daily expense claims.
Heathcoat - Amory is famous for saying to the black MP Dawn Butler «they let anyone in nowadays» and stood down from parliament in 2010 after his
extravagant expenses claims — including for horse manure for his garden — were revealed.
Legg was appointed by the prime minister to conduct an independent audit of all MPs»
expenses claims since 2004.
Both Gordon Brown and David Cameron rushed to give their support to expenses investigator Sir Thomas Legg as MPs considered whether to resist his demands to
repay expenses claims.
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