Cleaning Up the Mess
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Cleaning Up the Mess

After the MPs' Expenses Scandal

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Cleaning Up the Mess

After the MPs' Expenses Scandal

About this book

In 2009, news broke that MPs had been claiming taxpayers money to pay for such excesses as a floating duck-house, moat-cleaning services and 550 sacks of manure. The revelations shook Westminster and compromised the voters trust. Urgent action had to be taken.Cue the establishment of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), a regulator designed to scrutinise every claim and hold MPs to account. Created from scratch and operating in a world of rattled politicians accustomed to old habits, IPSA came up against a series of obstacles, ranging from MPs who had never used a computer to vicious online abuse. Ian Kennedy was the chairman of IPSA for its first seven years, and was responsible for developing it into an effective and transparent organisation.Ten years on, he discusses his struggle to ensure the public s money was put to good use, all the while being hounded by the press for not doing what they wanted, and by MPs themselves for doing what they'd voted for but didn't really intend. Cleaning Up the Mess describes the bullying, bitterness and occasional kindness Kennedy encountered, and how a thick skin and conviction in IPSA's purpose helped to restore trust in politics and politicians.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: The Expenses Scandal
  6. Chapter 2: Take-Off and Turbulence
  7. Chapter 3: Thinking Things Through and Setting Things Up
  8. Chapter 4: The Scheme of Expenses
  9. Chapter 5: A Changed World
  10. Chapter 6: Getting Started
  11. Chapter 7: The Speaker’s Committee on the IPSA (SCIPSA)
  12. Chapter 8: Communication, Contact, Compliance
  13. Chapter 9: Open and Closed
  14. Chapter 10: Meeting MPs
  15. Chapter 11: Independence
  16. Chapter 12: SCIPSA Again
  17. Chapter 13: Ordeal by Committee
  18. Chapter 14: Freedom of Information
  19. Chapter 15: Money – Funding for MPs’ Staff
  20. Chapter 16: Money – Remuneration of MPs
  21. Chapter 17: Carrying On
  22. Chapter 18: General Election of 2015
  23. Chapter 19: Phase II
  24. Epilogue
  25. Appendix I: A Tribute to One and All
  26. Appendix II: A Note for the Record by Director of Policy John Sills After a Meeting with Labour Party Mps, May 2010
  27. Appendix III: Request Under Freedom of Information Act and Response
  28. Appendix IV: Letters Between Ken Olisa and Mr Speaker
  29. Appendix V: Letters Between the Chairman and Mr Speaker
  30. Appendix VI: The First Board Look Back in (SOME) Anger: ‘Reviewing Mps’ Pay and Pensions – A First Report’
  31. Appendix VII: Two Papers Written by the Chair to Explore Ipsa’s Role
  32. Appendix VIII: Mps’ Pay 1911–2010
  33. Acknowledgements
  34. Index
  35. Copyright
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