Westminster Accounts: What are MPs doing with your cash?
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
It raises questions about whether MPs authorised public funding to be spent on the NRG because they knew they would be rewarded with a campaign donation. As a result of the investigation, the parliamentary expenses watchdog IPSA has announced an investigation.
On the Sky News Daily, host Kimberley Leonard is joined by our deputy politics editor Sam Coates to uncover his investigation and findings, and what issues it raises for parliamentary funding.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:06.8 | This is Kimberly Leonard in the Sky Newsroom. Now this episode picks up on investigations that we've heard about before on the Sky News Daily, |
| 1:13.9 | how your money moves around Westminster. |
| 1:17.1 | We call this our Westminster Accounts Investigation, |
| 1:20.0 | and our deputy political editor, Sam Coates, has an update today on some of his work, |
| 1:25.1 | particularly about groups of MPs who do make the news sometimes |
| 1:29.3 | research groups like the European research group, the Northern Research Group, and so on. |
| 1:35.7 | Sam, we need to explain these research groups before we do anything else, really, don't we? |
| 1:41.1 | Like the ERG, for instance. They would have become pretty familiar to some |
| 1:44.7 | people over the years, but what exactly are they? So there are a little curiosity, Kimberly, |
| 1:49.9 | that nestles in a sort of under-examined part of our political system. And this is where, under a |
| 1:57.6 | quirk that's grown up over decades, you could have bands, groups of MPs from the same party, all getting together. |
| 2:06.6 | And what they do is they, as it were, subscribe to a bit of a club. |
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