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teqniq said:
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BREAKING: Government admits at least 4 Ministers used private emails for Government business - Good Law Project

Following the revelations that disgraced former Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Health Minister Lord Bethell used private email accounts for Government business, our lawyers wrote to Government lawyers asking them to confirm they had searched the private email accounts of Ministers for...
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....but it is refusing to search the email accounts.
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£423/visor...nice work if you can get it.

A former Conservative councillor received a £120 million government contract for face shields whose quality is so doubtful that fewer than 1 in 400 have been used, meaning each one has so far cost the equivalent of £423.

Steve Dechan, 53, is the owner of Platform-14, a Gloucestershire firm that had specialised in devices for managing chronic pain. It recorded significant losses in the year before the pandemic.

In April last year, however, his offer to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) from China was fast-tracked through the “VIP” procurement lane. The government then invoked emergency rules to directly award him a series of contracts.


It heralded a change in his company’s fortunes as well as his own: he recently swapped his modest home in Stroud, Gloucestershire, for a £1.5 million 17th-century mansion with 100 acres of land in Painswick Valley, an area of outstanding natural beauty nicknamed the “Queen of the Cotswolds”.
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The report said the money was invested in building influence across the UK establishment - including "PR firms, charities, political interests, academia and cultural institutions" - all of whom were "willing beneficiaries of Russian money."

And it went on to say: "In brief, Russian influence in the UK is ‘the new normal’, and there are a lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business and social scene, and accepted because of their wealth
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MPs claiming expenses for 'dependent' children who are actually adults

'One despairs that after ten years MPs have not learnt the fundamental ethical lessons of the 2009 scandal over expenses.’
metro.co.uk

Some MPs are claiming nearly £10,000 in expenses for ‘dependent children’ who are 18 or older and are studying at university.

They’re entitled to up to £5,400 per child as a second home expense under guidelines designed to help MPs with families rent larger homes.

But many are topping up their £22,760 standard rental allowance by claiming for children in their 20s.
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