Minister and husband MP broke expenses rules Junior heath minister, Ann Keen and her husband Alan Keen MP broke expenses rules by claiming for a second home when their other house was boarded up, a committee of MPs has ruled.The couple did not live in their main home for 11 months while it was being refurbished. They must repay £1,500 and were accused of ‘a serious misjudgement’ by standards commissioner John Lyon. But MPs on the standards committee said they were victims of "bad luck" and had got approval from the Fees Office. Read More   Government cuts recommended pay increase for GDPs The Review Body (DDRB) has published its report which, for general dental practitioners (GDPs), recommended a 1.44 per cent increase in contract values which the DDRB intended to result in no increase in GDPs' net income after allowing for movement in expenses. Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, however has decided to reduce this amount ‘by applying a prospective efficiency assumption of 1 per cent of contractors' operational costs’. This has the effect of reducing the proposed uplift in the value of contract payments to 0.9 per cent for dental practices. Read More

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