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Article: Now Lords feels heat of the expenses backlash
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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Inquiry recommends crackdown on outside earnings and allowances
PEERS FACE having allowances slashed and some will be forced to
give up lucrative consultancy jobs under plans to radically reform
the House of Lords.
The first details to emerge from an independent inquiry into the
expenses system in place in the Lords suggest that the second
chamber will not escape the fall-out from the expenses scandal,
currently engulfing Westminster. A generous over-night allowance
handed to all peers who live outside London is expected to be cut as
part of reforms being drawn up by the Senior Salaries Review Body
(SSRB). It is thought that the body has accelerated its work amid
further evidence that some ...