Kiss Goodbye to the Golden Payoffs, Watchdog Tells Mps [Edition 2]
Evening Standard - London › November 04, 2009
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A CALL to strip greedy and disgraced MPs of "golden goodbye" pay- offs was made by the standards watchdog today.
Sir Christopher Kelly said MPs who fleeced taxpayers should not be allowed to retire quietly with fat resettlement grants of up to Pounds 64,000 in addition to their expenses gains.See the full content of this document
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Kiss Goodbye to the Golden Payoffs, Watchdog Tells Mps [Edition 2]
His call could mean MPs such as Sir Peter Viggers, whose huge gardening bills included a duckhouse on his estate, and ex-minister Elliot Morley, who claimed Pounds 16,000 for a non-existent mortgage, being stripped of their pay-offs. Urging parliament's anti- sleaze body, the Committee for Standards in Public Life, to take action, he said: "They already have the ability to withhold the grant from those who have misbehaved and ...
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