The former Labour MP for Livingston, Jim Devine, has been found guilty of defrauding the taxpayer of £8,385 by submitting false receipts. This can now been added the sums taken criminally by David Chaytor (£22,000) and Eric Illsley (£14,000) to a total of almost £45,000 stolen from the taxpayer.
The prime minister insisted the Sure Start budget was “going up” from £2.2m to £2.3m at PMQs today – yet it is the Early Intervention Grant that is increasing.
The model does indicate that there are grounds for optimism in Tunisia. The proportion of its working age adults who are young adults is xxx, which translates to a probability of liberal democracy of 0.48, or around one in two, similar to Chile’s probability as it democratised. Meanwhile Egypt, with its young-adult proportion of 0.48, translates to a probability of liberal democracy of 0.31 – less than one in three.
Backbenchers in the House of Commons are trying to guide the Consumer Credit Regulation and Advice Bill though Parliament to regulate the industry, reports Daniel Elton.
The respected economic think tank, the Institute of Fiscal Studies, have released a sneak preview of their annual ‘Green Budget’, to be launched on Wednesday. What we know so far is that the IFS are saying that tax changes to be brought in in April will cost the richest tenth of households typically 3 per cent of their income, compared to 1 per cent for the general population.
The Daily Mail’s undue emphasis on focusing on benefits claimants as immigrants disproportionately is not backed up by Office for National Statistics data.
David Cameron’s statement that spending would return to 2006 levels once the budget cuts are over obscure the real contraction in public service spending.
More than 2,000 young people from across the country, including from the Prime Minister’s own constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire, have signed a letter to David Cameron to be published today, calling for the government to think again on its planned cuts to youth provision and support.
The Tory flagship ‘family values’ policy, the Married Tax Allowance, has been found to have little impact on children’s lives, a new report from Demos reveals.
Over at Order Order, Guido Fawkes has accused Left Foot Forward of being a “fully signed on” member of some Labour Party rebuttal network, and “regularly taking stories” from Ed Miliband’s online communications specialist, Alex Smith. Let’s look at the evidence.
