Archive for chris grayling
Search engine optimisation and the public sector
Spending on search engine advertising at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) more than quadrupled in 2009-10 before being stopped as part of a general freeze on government marketing. The £956,000 bill for search engine advertising was revealed in a Parliamentary Question answered by DWP minister Chris Grayling. The axing of the budget for [...]
The thing David Cameron wants you to forget when watching his election broadcast
Today’s election broadcast from the Conservatives simply features David Cameron talking to camera about MPs and their expense claims. The message is meant to be about him facing up to the problems and talking frankly about them.
But listen to his language:
I want to start by saying sorry … sorry for the actions of some Conservative [...]
Viewing MPs’ travel expenses on a map
There’s a nifty little Google Map at http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/maps/mpTravelExpensesMap.html which is a great example of how you can use maps to make statistics clearer. In this case, the big issue is that MPs do have genuinely different legitimate travel needs depending on where they live. It’s only reasonable for an MP from Scotland to have much [...]
