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Tag Archives: payroll vote
Parliamentary Private Secretaries and the payroll vote under Boris Johnson
The Government has published the latest list of Parliamentary Private Secretaries (PPS). I have written a number of previous posts about the role and particularly the rise in the number of Parliamentary Private Secretaries in recent years. I won’t repeat … Continue reading
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Who governs? Knowing your Secretary of State from your Parliamentary Private Secretary
If one were to ask a random selection of the public on any high street in the UK, who they think runs the country, while the answers would be varied and perhaps laced with a healthy dose of scepticism about … Continue reading
Government transparency and the appointment of Parliamentary Private Secretaries
I have written in previous posts about the rise of the so-called payroll vote, those MPs holding government jobs who would need to resign their position if they wish to vote against the government. Although the number of paid Ministerial … Continue reading
Parliamentary Private Secretaries and the irresistible rise in the payroll vote
The role of unpaid Parliamentary Private Secretaries (PPS) and the impact of these appointments on the size the payroll vote has been something of a preoccupation of this blog. I first wrote about the payroll vote in a post in 2013, … Continue reading
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List of Parliamentary Private Secretaries: a reply from No.10
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about my frustration at being unable to find a list of Parliamentary Private Secretaries. The coalition government had published a list in 2010 but this has never been updated. On the suggestion of the House … Continue reading