Calman Commission
After many months of deliberation, the Calman Commission has this week reported back on the question of Scottish devolution. Last year the TPA produced a report on Scottish funding, financial devolution and the Barnett Formula which we submitted to the Commission. Our report reccomended full fiscal devolution, so that Scotland would gain control of its [...]
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Tax Payers Alliance launch campaign for private prosecutions of MP’s
As you may have already seen today, the TPA - backed by the Daily Mail - is launching a campaign for private prosecutions of MPs who may have broken the law in their expenses claims. The expenses scandal that has been exposed in recent days by the Telegraph cannot be dismissed simply by apologies, excuses or the waving [...]
How to save £57.8 billion – Tax Payers Alliance and Dispatches
TPA and Dispatches reveal how to save £57.8 billion
The TPA launch a new report showing that the Government could save £57.8 billion a year, £2,277 per family, by cutting structural waste in the public sector. The report was written by William Norton, a key author of the James Review in 2005, who revisited the subject [...]
The Unseen Government of the UK – Quangos
The most comprehensive cost picture ever of the UK’s 1,162 Quangos
The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) presents the full list of the UK’s vast quango industry, a detailed run-down of the staff and cost of the 1,162 bodies, boards and agencies that make up Britain’s Unseen Government. It is now five years since the Parliamentary Select Committee [...]
