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The Cabinet Office's annual report records a modest 12% rise in Special Adviser headcounts. But total SpAd payroll costs leaped 29% to £19.2 million, while departmental FOI response times lengthened.
Parliamentary Standards reports show 420 All-Party Parliamentary Groups registered last year. But external secretariat funding provided by commercial firms and foreign interests reached £6.8 million.
Cabinet Office records list 140 private sector executives seconded into government departments. Yet fewer than 15% underwent independent ACOBA scrutiny despite managing tender specs.
The official statistics state that 97% of all MPs' expenses claims were approved in the last parliamentary year, with a total of £124.6 million paid out to 650 members.
The Electoral Commission’s latest tranche of data, published with the usual fanfare of transparency, tells us that the Labour Party received £4.7 million in donations during the last quarter.