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Linda Riordan MP

Labour and Co-op MP for Halifax

 

 

 

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   Go forth for Halifax

Help Linda get re-elected, join her Facebook group "Re-elect Linda Riordan MP" and show your support. 

We are always looking for people to help canvassing, every volunteer helps.  If you have any spare time and want to help out please email Linda - riordanl@parliament.uk

 

   In Halifax
  • Working towards peace in Palestine
    Linda alongside Halifax Friends of Palestine headed by Jenny Lynn have been working in support of the people of Palestine on the streets of Halifax and in Parliament. Linda even went...
  • Linda urges Council to create jobs for local youths
    Linda is calling on Calderdale Council and local organisations to work with her to ensure that Halifax gets its fair share of a new £1 billion fund for young people at...
  • Tories call for Frontline Police Cuts
    Conservative Candidate for Halifax Phillip Allott has disgracefully called for PCSOs to be taken off the streets and put behind desks. Despite PCSOs being a very visible uniformed deterrent to crime...
  • Scores gather in campaign to shelve library plans
    Linda joined scores of people outside Halifax Central Library at the weekend to camapign against Council plans to demolish the library and move it to a new location. The campaign to...
  • New improvements to the NHS
    As some of you may be aware, from the 1st April, Labour is abolishing NHS prescription charges for everyone undergoing treatment for cancer, the effects of cancer, or the effects of...
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   In Parliament
  • Tories may scrap Sure Start
    The Conservative shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Phillip Hammond, has refused to make a commitment to Sure Start despite this being previous Tory policy. Hammond has signalled that the programme will...
  • Linda Meets with NDCS
    This week Linda attended a Parliamentary event hosted by the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS), where she got to meet some young deaf children and discuss their experiences. She is supporting the...
  • Linda Pleased Gurkha success
    Today the Government has changed its policy on the right of settlement for Gurkhas and are now allowing those who have served more than 4 years pre-1997 to settle here. This change...
  • Linda stands up for vunerable tenants
    Today in Parliament Linda questioned the Work and Pensions Minister responsible for Local housing allowance to ensure that help was being directed to those who need it most. Linda pressed the minister...
  • Linda speaks out against prision privitisation
    At yesterday's Justice Questions Linda spoke out against prision privitisation. She was speaking after recently meeting with the Prision Officers Association who fear that privitisation could compromise the safety of prisioners, prision...
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   Yorkshire Labour in Europe

As you may know the European elections are coming soon and we need to get our Labour team elected to represent us in the European Parliament. Labour has been making a real difference in Europe fighting on key areas such as the environment, worker's rights and social justice.

Please visit the Labour Euro team's website here.

   Save HBOS Jobs
  • Treasury Select Committee Come to Halifax
    The White Swan Hotel was packed last night as people from all over Halifax came to see the Treasury Select Committee discuss HBOS. There was a heated debate with...
  • Clergy support campaign to save HBOS job
    The campaign to save banking jobs in Halifax was supported by the Bishop of Wakefield and the vicar of Halifax at Friday night's public meeting. These two key religious...
  • Linda set to press banking bosses again
    Linda is holding another meeting with Lloyds' banking bosses to keep up the fight for protecting HBOS jobs in Halifax. The meeting will be held in Westminster next week...
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Linda issues statement and publishes expenses in advance of full publication by the Commons Authorites.

"I have decided to publish details of my Parliamentary expenses and allowances on my website because I do not wish to hide these from people or indeed be required to publish them at some point later in the year. Some of you will know that the 'headline' costs of running my Halifax and London offices have been on my website for over 3 months.
 
I accept that for for many people who are struggling on low wages or who are out of work, the news of some MPs claiming lavish expenses has rightly angered them. It's clear that the system is wrong and that it must now be radically changed. I claimed these allowances and expenses in good faith, based on the advice from the Parliamentary authorities. When I was elected in 2005, it became clear that I would need a base in London as well as my home in Halifax. I re-mortgaged my Halifax home to help purchase a small flat in London and modestly furnished that flat, some of those furnished items were authorised claims. But I accept that people in most other professions simply do not have access to this level of allowance and expenses claims.
 
Parliament has allowed itself to become out of touch with those it is meant to serve, that is wrong and every single MP must work doubly hard to rebuild trust. I hope that Sir Christopher Kelly's Standards Committee, which is looking into MPs allowances, will report very soon and that all his recommendations are accepted without question."
For the full block headings for Linda's expenses, including travel costs and use of the Parliament Communications Allowance, please click here.

Costs of living away from home

2005/06  £21,634

2006/07  £22,110

2007/08  £23,083

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Mortgage payments or rent (built into the above figures)

2005/06 - 12,855.15

2006/07 - 11,802,45

2007/08 - 11,087,78

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Other expenditure (built into the costs of living away from home figures).

Carpet - £1,936.50

Service charges - £1,061

Suite - £1310

Bed  and bedding - £265.97

Legal Fees - £449

Chartered Accountants - £1410.00

Land Registers - £100

Banking Fees - £399

Headboards - £245

Curtains - £220

TV Licence - £135.50

Service Charges and Service Maintenance - £3169

Repairs/Insurance/Security - £50,00

Stamp Duty - £1,117,39

VAT - £78.58

N,b. These are all costs met for second home to live in London.

Food allowance

£4800 per annum.

Cleaning

£1200 per annum.

Council Tax/Rates

£1880,.29

Payment of Interns

£1285.71

Utilities

£421.48

Office running Costs

n.b. This includes items like staionery, computers, printers, staff training, cartridges, toners etc,  office removal costs, £21,240.61 (since 2005 not per annum)

Office rent - £10,326.00 (since 2005 not per annum)

Telecommunications

£8,043.77 (since 2005 not per annum)

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