Archive for malcolm rifkind
The top five London MPs for outside earnings
Via a survey carried out for LondonlovesBusiness.com comes this list of the top five London MPs for annual outside earnings on top of their MP salary of £65,738: Sir Malcolm Rifkind, MP for Kensington (Con) – upwards of £240,000 Nick Raynsford, MP for Greenwich and Woolwich (Lab) - £60,657 Mark Field, MP for Cities of London and [...]
MPs expenses: the details that you’ve probably missed
The headline recommendations from Sir Christopher Kelley’s review of MPs’ expenses have been widely covered. Despite this coverage, there is a series of detailed proposals which have been largely overlooked – including one which may yet put the leaders of political parties on the spot over cases involving their own MPs which they thought they [...]
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 [...]
What is it about London Conservatives and expenses?
London Conservative Assembly Member Brian Coleman’s huge expense claims are nearing the stuff of legend, hiss free travel card notwithstanding.* Even when the figures last year showed he had cut his taxi claims by a fifth, they still came in at over £8,000 in a year, compared with £685 on average for other London Assembly [...]
