|
|
Greg Mulholland-Working Hard For Leeds North WestMulholland regrets opportunities missed by Kelly Report
October 28, 2009 9:25 PM
Greg Mulholland MP for Leeds North West and leading campaigner on the issue of expenses has responded to the Kelly report which has been released today.
Greg and fellow MP Norman Baker yesterday tabled a motion in Parliament calling for all MPs who have been found to deliberately misuse expenses to be laid off without the right to personal severance pay.
Greg said:
"There are aspects of this report which I welcome such as the ban on mortgage claim payments.
"I do feel however, that this report has not gone far enough, I personally would have liked to see the introduction of cost effective centrally organised accommodation for MPs.
"The most important thing of course is that we get the new system up and running as soon as possible to start to restore public faith in politicians which has been rightly shaken by this whole sorry saga."
ENDS
Notes for editors
EDM:
Calls for any Member who is either convicted of a criminal offence in respect to their expense claims or found by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to have claimed expenses deliberately or to have purposely misrepresented information to personally benefit from expenses to be forced to step down from their position with immediate effect triggering a by-election; believes that this is the only way to demonstrate to the public in a way that will command confidence that abuse of Members' allowances will be properly punished; believes that in any other job, people would be dismissed for such actions; believes that Members who are shown to have abused the allowances system means that have lost the confidence of people in their constituency who then in effect are not represented; also believes that any Member standing down under these circumstances should not be entitled to the severance payments which are designed to benefit them personally and are payable to Members who stand down in other circumstances.
What would you like to do next?
-
Subscribe for updates
Follow the party's activity on...
- Twitter:
- Liberal Democrats
- Facebook:
- Liberal Democrats
- YouTube:
- Liberal Democrats
-
Help out or donate
-
Tell us what you think