Prerogative powers are a funny thing, there are quite a few, as as was reported yesterday, Ming Campbell would like to get rid of most of them. Putting aside the constitutional tinkering and muddying that the Lib Dem proposals would imply for the Crown, one of the prerogative powers belonging to the Treasury is the ability to reward informers who provide information that leads to the recover of money by the Crown.
Obviously knowing who receives such money is protected by Data Protection Laws along with common sense about the need to protect someone from a kneecapping I imagine, but how much has been paid out, I would've though, is not. So it's interesting that HMRC last paid someone money for information in March 2007 according to the Treasury Minister John Healey.
The question is, how much was paid out? More interestingly to me (because I'm a nosy bugger) is how much the Treasury pay out each year exercising this prerogative? As well as what the payouts are in proportion to the recovered monies. I don't know the answer, would be good if I did, but there you go.
4 comments:
What's up Dizzy? Are you thinking about making a call to HMRC? :-D
I want to report wastage of money: there's a bloke claiming to be prime minister, visiting all these far off places, with loads of groupies. As far as i can tell, its a personal trip/jollyday. I don't want a reward, I just doing me civic duty to dob in a bludger.
I agree there is a lot of wastage. Like I said on 18DS recently I met a former MEP in Fulham who told me he put his son through university on the expenses he claimed from Brussels. That really upset me.
Definition of a parasitic cunt:
"former MEP in Fulham who ... put his son through university on the expenses he claimed from Brussels"
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