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We are really close to a serious victory cutting the amount of your money being used to subsidise the trade unions, particularly trade union activists paid for with taxpayers' money. Action is on the way with Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude announcing major reforms in the Civil Service and local government minister Brandon Lewis saying they will be “stopping these non-jobs”. Our major new report this week keeps up the pressure. The Government needs to extend the changes to the rest of the public sector and establish a simple principle: if you are working for a trade union, you should be paid by the trade union. - Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive £113m trade union subsidy Your money is paying for 3,041 full-time equivalent activists. From teachers who aren’t teaching to nurses who aren’t nursing. They are all working for the union. Boundary review might be wasted If the public workforce is shrinking, Parliament should shrink too. The money has been spent on a boundary review to make reducing the number of MPs possible, but it might be wasted thanks to partisan bickering. Fighting hikes in motoring taxes Conservatives attacked the last Government for dressing up hikes in motoring taxes as reforms. Now, sadly, it looks like they might try the same trick themselves with proposals for new charges based on how much we drive. Benefits still need urgent reform Too often the benefits system currently supports big families to live in inner cities, in a way the taxpayers picking up the bill could never afford. We need to fight for that to change. More transparency in Hull Interesting news from Hull. Apparently they are considering publishing information for all senior staff and pay for those on more than average weekly earnings.