Members' Payments and Allowances

Part of Business of the House – in the House of Commons at 3:28 pm on 22 January 2009.

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Photo of Julian Lewis Julian Lewis Shadow Minister (Defence) 3:28, 22 January 2009

I entirely endorse the point that my hon. Friend has just made, but will he take this opportunity to put one thing, which has involved the public being misled by the press, on the record? Not everybody in a senior position paid from the public purse has a publication regime that extends down to individual receipts. That has not been made sufficiently clear. The question is whether we have a sufficiently rigorous auditing process, and that is what we are achieving today.