Its been a rather interesting 48 hours at the Treasury firstly it turned out that David Laws had paid his partner £40k of taxpayers money he was not entitled to and now his replacement Danny Alexander seems to have dodged Capital Gains Tax.
It was dodging of Capital Gains Tax that resulted in Hazel Blears resigning from the Cabinet and Ian Gibson giving up his Norwich North seat.
If Nick Clegg and Dave Cameron are serious about restoring the public's faith in politics its hard to see how Danny Alexander can remain in the Cabinet.
With the standard's of MP's exected to be so high at the moment it looks like we will be seeing lots more politians running into scandals in the coming months and years.
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Monday, 31 May 2010
Friday, 11 December 2009
EURIM and travel
Went to a really interesting meeting yesterday evening at the House of Commons where Eurim was holding a meeting looking at the how the use of technology can lead to cost savings and improved public services.
A speaker from Blackberry gave a presentation on how Portsmouth NHS Trust midwifes now use a digital pen to handle admin ensuring a a smooth clinic audit trail and freeing up time to enable more patient contact.
Blackberry also provides a case studies as to how Glasgow City Council use of Blackberries for its Social Services Team provided a return on investment of 13 days.
Allowing Care workers to have instant access to clients details allowing for the real time flow of information and other benefits such as lone worker protection.
My journey back from London was quite eventful as a man had committed suicide at Ilford which meant the trains were not running as normal.
One of the results of this was the train I was on was packed and made and extra stop at Shenfield joining us for the journey was a charming young lady from Billericay who had spent the evening in bars in the west end.
Together with the off duty police man we had a very assussing trip between Liverpool St and Shenfield which certainly made travelling by train more interesting than normal.
Finally got into Norwich at 01:48 and to bed at 03:00hrs hence the sleep in.
About to head off to Sainsburys to do the Xmas shop.
A speaker from Blackberry gave a presentation on how Portsmouth NHS Trust midwifes now use a digital pen to handle admin ensuring a a smooth clinic audit trail and freeing up time to enable more patient contact.
Blackberry also provides a case studies as to how Glasgow City Council use of Blackberries for its Social Services Team provided a return on investment of 13 days.
Allowing Care workers to have instant access to clients details allowing for the real time flow of information and other benefits such as lone worker protection.
My journey back from London was quite eventful as a man had committed suicide at Ilford which meant the trains were not running as normal.
One of the results of this was the train I was on was packed and made and extra stop at Shenfield joining us for the journey was a charming young lady from Billericay who had spent the evening in bars in the west end.
Together with the off duty police man we had a very assussing trip between Liverpool St and Shenfield which certainly made travelling by train more interesting than normal.
Finally got into Norwich at 01:48 and to bed at 03:00hrs hence the sleep in.
About to head off to Sainsburys to do the Xmas shop.
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