Cameron claimed the money as part of his "public duty cost allowance", which assists PMs still active in public life
But in the year up to 31 March 2021, he kept a low profile and his taxpayer-funded office ignored questions on Greensill
Unclear what the money was spent on
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Elsewhere in the Cabinet Office annual report:
Mark Sedwill's remuneration last year totalled *£530,000* - incl severance payments and previously undisclosed "compensation in lieu of notice"
Former cabinet secretary forced out by PM and Cummings, hence extraordinary payoff
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Low profile - but, as has been pointed out, one or two notable exceptions. Perhaps that publicly funded office was active when arranging this (cc @MattChorley)
Greensill takes aim at Lord Myners, who has been one of the leading critics of the company
Says Myners "seemed amenable" to the idea of becoming an adviser to his company during a meeting they had - and that he had a follow up encounter with the chairman of Greensill Capital 2/
Greensill says that Lord Myners prepared a statement which the company was preparing to publish - but never did.
"My question in parliament was linked to open ended funds and illiquidity. I've asked many other question of the same issue in my time in parliament...
🚨On 5 March 2020, David Cameron wrote to the Bank of England, saying: "I do a lot of work with Greensill Capital, now the world leaders in this space. We would be keen to help. . ."
In a separate email he said: "We would be keen to step and help during the current difficulties"
On 9 March, Jon Cunliffe, agreed to meet Cameron/Greensill so they could present their ideas to him directly.
"Cameron explained how Greensill Capital worked, and asked if he and Lex Greensill could come in to brief Jon and other about this. Jon agreed." bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/fi…
On 16 March, Greensill told the Bank of England about his NHS payday scheme, saying: "We . . .have agreed to pay all NHS employees and contractors daily."
There was no such agreement at the time, nor was there ever one.
At a push a few thousand out of 1.4m NHS staff used it.
EXCLUSIVE: Kate Bingham, chair of Boris Johnson's vaccine taskforce, has charged taxpayers £670,000 for her own team of boutique PR consultants
According to leaked docs, eight full-time consultants from London firm Admiral Associates are on the equivalent of £165K salaries 1/
Bingham, who is married to Tory minister, Jesse Norman, and went to school with Rachel Johnson, is said to have "insisted" on hiring the team.
This is despite fears that they duplicate work of press officers at BEIS, where task force sits
Source: "I don't know what they do." 2/
Alok Sharma, the business secretary, did not sign off the expenditure, which has cost around £500K already, with contracts running until the end of the year
Instead, it was signed off by a civil servant
The team helps with day to day comms - and a Spotify vaccine podcast 3/
EXC: The chair of the UK's vaccine task force showed “official sensitive” government documents to a $200-a-head event for elite US venture capitalists last week
Kate Bingham, a Boris Johnson appointee, showed guests a list of products which the government is set to invest in 1/
Bingham spent 1hr with the “networking event” for women in private equity held by a Massachusetts firm
Her PowerPoint included a sensitive internal breakdown of vaccines.
Blue: "We haven’t necessarily signed contracts with all of them so far. But they’re all in our sights.” 2/
Bingham combines the role with her job as managing director of SV Health Investors, a private equity firm
Like Dido Harding, she is married to a Conservative MP: Treasury Minister Jesse Norman.
In August three MPs and the Good Law Project, a non-profit organisation, launched legal action against the government over its allegedly “persistent and unlawful failure” to disclose details of Covid-19-related spending 2/5
The claimants argue that the state has breached a law that requires contracts to be published within 30 days.
They have also posed Qs about firms that have secured lucrative work, like PestFix, a family-run pest control firm which has received at least £32m to produce PPE 3/5
EXC w/@TomCalver2: Wealthy areas are avoiding lockdown despite having higher COVID-19 rate than poorer areas under measures
This is warning of public health director for one of Lancashire's biggest councils in leaked memo to govt
Risks "double whammy" of Covid & more inequality
Eg. Rishi Sunak and Robert Jenrick's seats are not currently subject to lockdown measures
However, they have higher coronavirus infection rates than areas that are
This is consequence of a lack of standardisation. There is no cases threshold beyond which measures are imposed
@SteveReedMP: "We're at a critical stage in our fight against this virus. It is crucial the public have maximum confidence in the decision-making process. That can only happen with far greater transparency from Whitehall and council leaders in the room when decisions are taken"