Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has limited the scope of his audit opinion on the regularity of expenditure in the 2009-10 Resource Accounts that report the costs of the MPs’ Expenses Scheme. This is the first audit to be carried out following a decision by the House to remove restrictions on the scope of the C&AG’s work, which means that he is now required to look beyond an MP’s signature in assessing the regularity of a claim.
The qualification arises because the House authorities were unable to provide evidence to support payments to MPs of £2.6 million, including £0.8 million that remains unsupported despite a major exercise to obtain evidence retrospectively and £1.8 million where evidence is not available for audit because the MPs are under investigation by the police.
In addition, the evidence supporting £11.3 million of costs reimbursed to Members was not sufficient for the C&AG to confirm the expenditure had been incurred for Parliamentary purposes. This is despite the evidence having been obtained in accordance with the rules governing the MPs’ Expenses Scheme.
Full Report HERE.
So much for all the whining about how strict IPSA was…..
I don’t often swear, but I’ll make an exception.
£$%*&&^@@????****** !!!
December 15, 2010 at 16:59
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When you think of the hoops the rest of us are put through to satisfy
HMRC
This sort of thing, is indicative of not a failing organisation but a
failed organisation.
- December 15, 2010 at 17:44
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Andrew, are you saying we should dump parliament and all the MPs? We
could because we have the technology to put the people back in power and us
to vote directly on running the country.
Not quite as straight forward as I make it sound but it could be
done.
- December 15, 2010 at 20:37
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It must be done – we desperately need it to be done. Nothing short of a
steam pressure washing and dyno-rodding will do – several times over!
- December
15, 2010 at 16:16
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Oooh, must see what Tom Harris MP has to say about this – on Twitter, since
he conveniently gave up blogging a few weeks ago.
Hmm…
*crickets*
- December 15, 2010 at 16:52
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Tumbleweed?
- December
15, 2010 at 15:12
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Not my favourite organization I must admit – see entries passim at http://dioclese.blogspot.com/2010/06/ipsa-i-told-you-so.html
and http://dioclese.blogspot.com/2010/04/ipsa-idiot-population-swallows-anything.html
Sometimes it pains me to say ‘I told you so’
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