+++ Auditor General Refuses to Sign Off MPs Expenses +++

Ainsworth Slams Miliband’s Anonymous Briefings – Daily Politics
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Time for a Grown Up Debate About Drugs – Bob Ainsworth
PM’s Latest Speaker Joke – Jon Craig
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How To Upset a Cameroon – Alex Singleton
Labour Councillor Done for Fraud – Green’s Diary
Mad, Bad Hunter S. Thompson-esque Baldwin – Dan Hodges
Council Spends £111m Re-doing Building While Sacking – BBC

Tony Blair told Bill Clinton…

“…if we become the parties of big deficit spending, the public thinks in today’s world, we’re taxpayers, we’re going to pay for that.”

+++ Auditor General Refuses to Sign Off MPs Expenses +++

The £800,000 worth of non-existant receipts between 2009/10 was, unsurprisingly, a bit of an issue. And that was before the £1.8 million claimed by MPs on trial or under investigation by the Police was taken out of consideration…

Developing…

UPDATE: The statement:

“The qualification arises because the House authorities were unable to provide evidence to support payments to MPs of £2.6 million, including £0.8 million that remains unsupported despite a major exercise to obtain evidence retrospectively and £1.8 million where evidence is not available for audit because the MPs are under investigation by the police.In addition, the evidence supporting £11.3 million of costs reimbursed to Members was not sufficient for the C&AG to confirm the expenditure had been incurred for Parliamentary purposes. This is despite the evidence having been obtained in accordance with the rules governing the MPs’ Expenses Scheme.”

So around £1,200 per Member that they cannot support? Who was it that said they had changed…