Rejected petition that there should be legally binding independent assessment of the expenses of Members of Parliament - Commons and Lords

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That the Government acts to make the approval and monitoring of expenses truly independent.
The current situation exemplified by the decision of the Parliamentary Standards Committee to effectively over-rule to decision of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, is confusing and clearly not transparent.

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It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

This is a matter for Parliament not for Government

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Date submitted 6 April 2014
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