Download or read book Mr David Laws written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee looked at the key issue that Mr Laws rented accommodation from a partner from June 2001 and continued to do so after the rules were changed in 2006 to prohibit explicitly such an arrangement. Mr Laws referred himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and has cooperated with the Commissioner's investigation. He has accepted the Commissioner's key judgments and realises his error in not ensuring that his claims were above reproach. The Committee also noted the nature of Mr Laws' rental agreement, claims for rent and building work, and claims for telephony. In its conclusions and recommendations the Committee noted that Mr Laws main home designation was incorrect from April 2005 but that his claims for food up until and beyond July 2006 were legitimate. Mr Laws has apologised and repaid the sum of his full ACA claims for 1 July 2006 to 31 July 2009. The Committee looked at whether there needs to be a stronger sanction than repayments. It notes that Mr Laws has already resigned from the Cabinet and his behaviour since May 2010 has been exemplary, referring himself to and co-operating with the Commissioner, repaying allowances from July 2006 in full. However Mr Laws was guilty of serious breaches of the rules over a considerable time. So they recommend Mr Laws should be suspended from the service of the House for a period of 7 sitting days and that Mr Laws should apologise to the House by way of a personal statement.

Download or read book Public Diplomacy written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'public diplomacy' relates to activities designed to promote the image and interests of the UK overseas in support of the Government's objectives. The BBC World Service and the British Council are the main government-funded bodies involved in public diplomacy activity, and in 2004-05, they received £225 million and £172 million of grant-in-aid respectively. The Committee's report examines the work of these two organisations, in light of the recommendations of the review by Lord Carter of Cole (more details available at http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPageandc=Pageandcid=1007029395249) on the effectiveness of the Government's public diplomacy work, published in December 2005. The report makes 31 conclusions and recommendations, including the need for the Foreign Office to support an increase in the grant-in-aid funding for the BBC World Service so that it can introduce other television services such as the Arabic television news service; and that although it is appropriate for a Foreign Office minister to chair the new Public Diplomacy Strategy and Performance Management Board to ensure parliamentary accountability, this must not be allowed to compromise the editorial independence of the BBC World Service or the operational independence of the British Council.

Download or read book Draft Financial Services Bill written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on the Draft Financial Services Bill and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In autumn 2008, Britain's banking system came perilously close to collapse. To avert catastrophe, the Government was forced to step in with multi-billion pound bailouts. Many factors led to this crisis including failings in financial supervision and fuzzy allocation of responsibilities for preventing and managing systemic crises. The draft Financial Services Bill (printed as chapter 5 of 'A new approach to financial regulation: the blueprint for reform' (Cm. 8083, June 2011, 9780101808323) is aimed at preventing such a potentially calamitous systemic failure of the financial sector occurring again. It proposes far reaching changes to the regulatory structure, replacing the tripartite system of financial regulation with a twin peaks model. The Joint Committee's recommendations are intended to ensure that the new regulatory authorities have the right objectives, powers and responsibilities and systems of accountability which will be essential to make them effective.

Download or read book Persecuted by MI5 Security Service Volume 1 written by Tadeusz Szocik and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of MI5's persecution of a British citizen across various countries since 1990. First the TV newscasters watched me while they read the news. Then co-workers were subverted which continued throughout my working life. MI5 sent people in the street to stalk me. On 17 November 2001 they ordered Americans to shoot me, and their plot failed. Finally in August 2005 began the Mind Control Torture which has continued ever since whereby security service agents read my thoughts and repeat them interspersed with swearing and sexual abuse.

Download or read book Sessional Returns written by Great Britain: House of Commons and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With corrigendum slip dated June 2005 (1 sheet).

Download or read book Lessons from the process of government formation after the 2010 general election written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee gives its assessment of the process of government formation following the May 2010 general election. In general, the committee finds that the process went well, but it also suggests some practical improvements and clarifications. Among the key findings is that clearer guidance is still needed on the circumstances under which a Prime Minister should resign and when he has a duty to remain in office. The report also proposes enhanced processes for ensuring that governments understand-and are discouraged from breaching-restrictions on their activity that apply before and immediately after general elections. The committee concludes that as a coalition government's programme for government cannot be put directly to the people, the House of Commons needs to have the opportunity to subject these proposals to full pre-legislative scrutiny.

Download or read book Sessional Returns written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover and title page: House, committees of the whole House, general committees and select committees

Download or read book The Orange Book written by Paul Marshall and published by Profile Books Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stimulating collection, the next generation of Liberal Democrat leaders, including MPs and MEPs, proposes a vigorous future for the party and its policies. Up to the minute, original, and persuasively argued, the thinking in this book demonstrates the Liberal Democrats' vitality and social commitment, and gives a valuable insight into how the party will move in the future.

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Download or read book Dave and Nick written by Ann Treneman and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will not read this story of Dave and Nick anywhere else. Ann Treneman, the sketchwriter for The Times, chronicles all the highlights (and even more of the lowlights) of their extraordinary relationship in a love story that not even Mills & Boon could imagine. Two posh boys who found each other, a bromance to remember, full of love, hate, fratricide, war, riots, bad hair and even worse speeches, not to mention that sexy AV referendum. Through her perceptive sketches, Ann Treneman tells the story of how they dated, flirted with others (including the brooding hulkish Gordon), but eventually came together in a sun-kissed wedding in the Downing Street rose garden. She reveals how Nick struggled to be the perfect political wife while starting a new sub-career as a national hate figure, and chronicles Dave's long and bruising battle with arrogance. She tells the shocking story of their arch rival, the man who killed his brother and got away with it. The nightmare of the grandparents, the mad aunts and uncles, the ambitious kids and the economy that simply would not do as it was told. This is the tale of two men and a screaming baby of a coalition, trying to stay true to each other when surrounded by political mayhem and madness. Laugh? Or cry (with laughter)? How about both?

Download or read book The Administration of Tax Credits written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new tax credits (the child tax credit and the working tax credit) were introduced in April 2003. Government statistics indicate that 6 million families and 10 million children benefit from the receipt of these credits. In 2003-04 period about one-third of all tax credits awards, 1.9 million, were overpaid, at a cost of nearly £2 billion. This report by the Treasury Committee examines the reasons for the high level of overpayments. The Committee acknowledges recent research which suggests that the tax credits regime is designed to deliver the correct amount of state assistance over the year as a whole, rather than over a shorter period, and that payments should perhaps be aligned more with the financial needs of families who budget over shorter periods. The Committee states that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) need to develop a detailed understanding of the factors that have led to overpayment, such as how much official errors and IT system errors have caused or contributed to overpayments. The report also considers the incidence of fraud, error on the part of claimants and organised crime. The Committee also feels that the administration of the tax credits regime has been based around individual functions or tasks, rather than centred around the needs of the claimants and that the HMRC needs to institute a claimant-centred approach to the administration of tax credits

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Download or read book Review of past ACA payments written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Members Estimate Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report that includes the final report from Sir Thomas Legg on the review of past payments to Members of Parliament of Additional Costs Allowance (the 'second home allowance'), and the report from Sir Paul Kennedy on his decisions on appeals from MPs against Sir Thomas' rulings.