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Emergency Budget: Civil list to face public audit
Emergency Budget: Civil list to face public audit

By Tobias Benedetto Plans for the National Audit Office (NAO) to be made responsible for auditing the civil list accounts from 2012 were included in the Budget announcement. This will allow greater public scrutiny of the details of royal household expenditure, and align the household’s business accounts to the same standard as government departments. Plans… Read more »

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On his way to wreak havoc with Labour's spending plans
Sketch: Pallid Osborne’s horror Budget

The nation’s politics descended into bitterness as queasy, uneasy MPs listened to George Osborne’s emergency Budget. By Alex Stevenson The chancellor must have dreamed of this moment ever since he first became shadow chancellor five long years ago. Little did he realise then he would be slashing rather than tinkering. “It pays for the past… Read more »