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How we do it 11 12 aving played a major role in exposing MPs’ expenses, we led the campaign to reform H them, demanding police investigations into several parliamentarians. In March 2010 TPA s supporters protested outside court in Southwark, as three MPs and Lord Hanning eld went e

s on trial, charged with fraud over their expenses – a major victory in our ‘Bring them to Justice’ n campaign. That trial is ongoing as we go to press. e p x e ’ s P M r o f m e t s y s

t Papers n e r a p s n a r t e r o m , r e

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a Inquiry on MPs’ expenses, and Matthew Elliott f was invited to sit on the advisory board of Ipsa,

A the new body that oversees MPs’ expenses. .

1 I The Case Against Boosting MPs' Pay (Aug 2009) http://bit.ly/MPs2010

I TPA written evidence to Sir Christopher Kelly’s Inquiry into MPs’ expenses (Nov 2009) http://bit.ly/Kelly09

I MPs’ Resettlement Grants (Jun 2010) http://bit.ly/MPgrant 13 e were the rst to reveal the extent of taxpayer funded lobbying W and political campaigning in the UK. More than £37 million was spent on this

in 2007-08. It’s not just public sector bodies hiring political consultants and funding s t s

trade associations, it’s also funding going to nominally independent political i

campaigns and think tanks. Environmental policy campaigns such as the y Sustainable Development Commission received over £6.7 million and £191,000 b b

was paid to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). o l e v i s n

We are very pleased that Ipsa Papers e adopted the vast majority of p Sir Christopher Kelly’s proposed I Taxpayer funded lobbying and political x e changes to the system of MPs’ campaigning (Aug 2009) http://bit.ly/TFLPC g

expenses. But there is still more to n i

do . MPs should be selected through r open primaries and voters should be i h

able to ‘recall’ MPs who misbehave. s l i c n u o Implement the Kelly c o

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“The Kelly Review produced a d practical and sensible set of In August 2010, the n e reforms of the MPs’ expenses Government announced an n

system which should be enacted end to taxpayer funded A

in full, immediately.” lobbying by local authorities. . Reform lobbying We hope the Government 2 extends this to all government “End taxpayer funded lobbying and departments and quangos, political campaigning and require and we will be campaigning greater transparency for lobbying by hard for them to do so. public aﬀairs companies.” 14 Papers he Bumper Book of Government Waste highlighted the waste and I How to save £50 billion: Reducing spending for sustainable Texcess of our government. A series of research papers, as well as public "nances (Sep 2009) http://bit.ly/save50bn g our highly respected Economics101 blog, have built up our campaign

n I How to Cut Public Spending (and still win an election) i for spending cuts. Our newest book came in the form of How to Cut (Mar 2010) http://bit.ly/TPAbook d Public Spending (and still win an election) , edited by our Research n I The Economic Cost of High Spending (Apr 2010)

e Director, Matthew Sinclair. The book updated and expanded on a http://bit.ly/spendgrow The Government is halving

p previous pamphlet, written in conjunction with the Institute of advertising spend, with the Central

s I The economic eﬀects of rapid "scal adjustment Directors, How to save £50 billion: Reducing spending for sustainable O ce of Information announcing

c (Jun 2010) http://bit.ly/BEFMOD i

l public nances . We continue to spread the message that ambitious it will shed 40% of staﬀ. Some

b cuts in spending can deliver improvements in both the UK’s scal wasteful fake aid programmes u have been scrapped. Other more

p position, economic prospects and job creation. substantial cuts are highlighted on n

i the following pages. s t u c l a i t n a t s b u S

. Reduce public 3 spending Many items in our manifesto deal with substantial cuts in public spending and they are highlighted on the following Our Pre-Emergency Budget brie ng and Post-Emergency Budget pages. Some smaller brie ng were the must-go events for all political journalists and examples include: cut the fellow opinion-formers in Westminster. A range of speakers Government’s advertising provided quick, original and incisive analysis of the Emergency spend in half; institute clear Budget 2010, particularly highlighting how a rise in VAT would scal rules with expenditure punish the poor. targets and drop the 0.7% target for foreign aid spending to focus more on results. 15 “The Man in Whitehall will have no escape ransparency of public sector spending has been a core principle of from the hyperscrutiny of the digital age. Tour campaigning ever since we rst started to use the Freedom of Groups like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, and bloggers like Guido Fawkes, will feature more

Information Act to expose how taxpayers’ money was being wasted. e heavily in his nightmares than ever before — n

Following our advice, Windsor and Maidenhead Council were the rst shouting and demanding that he achieves i to publish on the Internet all spending over £500. We then met l better value for money. Internet exposure will n representatives from Northamptonshire County Council to discuss how be a powerful enemy of bureaucratic excess.” o they could increase transparency and they are now also publishing all The Spectator (Jan 2010) s t spending over £500 online. We are extremely pleased that the Coalition with c rk Wallace Ma sor a from Wind atives r has taken on transparency as a key principle of government. Not all represent ncil nhead Cou t and Maide

spending is online yet so we will continue to work with them on this n until the time when taxpayers can see how every penny of their money o is spent. c d n a g n i d n

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Matt e hew Sincla All councils spending above £500 should ir spea d Post-Bur ks at th eaucratic e Age c be published online n onference u

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Northamptonshire County Council to a discuss how they could increase Publish full data on T spending .

transparency around council business. 4 As a direct result of the discussions “Follow the example of the US they’re now publishing salaries and government and councils in expenses and all spending over £500 the UK. Taxpayers have a right online as is the Department for to know how their money is Communities and Local Government. being spent.” 16

wo signature publications of the TPA are our Public “It was not until the birth of the TaxPayers’ TSector Rich List and Town Hall Rich List which we have Papers Alliance that anyone compiled this data y published annually since 2006. The aim of these systematically and drew attention to the a I Council Spending Uncovered: Middle Management Pay publications was to bring more transparency to top level surging salaries, burgeoning staﬀ empires p (Jan 2009) http://bit.ly/pay09

r public sector pay, because we believe that public opinion and general waste. What Mr Osborne wants I Public Sector Rich List (Dec 2009) http://bit.ly/PSRL09 o and the media will act as a check on big pay rises if they to do is put the TaxPayers’ Alliance out of t

c I Towards Transparent Rewards (Feb 2010) http://bit.ly/TranRew are out in the open. We are extremely pleased therefore business — in the nicest possible way.” e I Town Hall Rich List 2010 Fraser Nelson, Editor of The Spectator s (Apr 2010) http://bit.ly/THRL2010 that the Coalition has promised to publish all salaries over

c £58,000 on the internet. i l b u p n o p i The Coalition announced a two year pay freeze in the Emergency Budget. r

g Before the General Election both Gordon Brown and David Cameron accepted the need for transparency in top public sector pay. We are a extremely pleased that the Coalition has started to implement this. g

n But there is still more to do . Not all salaries over £58,000 have been i

t published on the internet yet, so we will continue to pressure the t Government until this is done. e G . 5 Introduce a 2 year public sector pay After we battled Kent County freeze Council to reveal senior o cers’ pay in 2007, new guidance on salary “Public sector staﬀ are transparency was issued. It is now better paid, get better recommended that all public pensions and work fewer hours than workers in bodies provide salaries of senior the private sector.” staﬀ as a matter of routine, in bands of £5,000. This year we submitted evidence to the Public Administration Select Committee on Top Pay in the Public Sector. 17

t the start of 2010 we published new research revealing that total A council pension de cits are more than £53 billion, a huge ticking t

Papers time bomb. Local council pensions are just one small part of the overall i

The Coalition has announced a new c picture, with unfunded and over generous public sector pensions straining Commission on Public Sector Pensions to be " I The Hundred Club: Whitehall Pensions (Nov 2006) public nances now, and into the future. In December 2007 we revealed led by former Labour Minister, John Hutton. e

http://bit.ly/pension06 d that there are almost 3,700 retired civil servants with retirement bene ts In our written evidence, we highlighted the I £1 m civil service pensions (Dec 2007) worth £1 million. Earlier research also uncovered 8,500 retired NHS staﬀ growing gap between public and private n

http://bit.ly/pension07 o with retirement bene ts worth £1 million. sector pension provision and made i I £1m NHS Pensions (Feb 2008) http://bit.ly/pension08 s

recommendations on how public sector n I The UK pensions crisis (Nov 2008) http://bit.ly/crisis08 pensions can be made sustainable and e

I How to save £50 billion (Sep 2009) http://bit.ly/50Bil aﬀordable in the long term. But there is still p

I Council pensions: The £53 billion black hole more to do. We estimate that every g n

(Mar 2010) http://bit.ly/53BIL household will have to pay up to £40,000 i l

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unfunded public sector pensions . from 6 to 8% of salary and cut pay 6 for the top 10% of earners in the public sector by 5% Hull and East Riding, Grassroots Coordinator Andrew Allison organised a series of rallies and protests “Public sector staff are better paid, get outside the Town Hall in Beverley, after councillors better pensions and approved in!ation busting pay rises to retain senior work fewer hours staff, who later left. Those staff took enhanced nal than workers in the salary pensions and large discretionary payments to private sector.” their pension funds, Sue Lockwood, director of corporate resources, receiving £364,205. 18 e led the campaign to abolish Regional Development WAgencies, which the Government announced in their

d Emergency Budget in June. They were created to coordinate e Papers economic development across the regions but are simply an p

p unnecessary and expensive layer of bureaucracy that sti"es I The Case for Abolishing Regional Development Agencies a genuine private enterprise. We compiled the rst full list of In the June 2010 Emergency Budget, the r (Aug 2008) http://bit.ly/RDAcut

c Government announced the abolition of Regional grants dished out by the RDAs and showed how most of them s I Structure of Government 3: The Case for Abolishing Development Agencies so this is a clear policy Regional Development Agencies (Aug 2008)

s had gone to predominantly public sector projects. We also http://bit.ly/abolishRDA victory for the TPA. But there is still more to do. e

i exposed how they used taxpayers’ money to lobby the The Government has announced that they

c I Regional Development Agencies: Having a ball at the government for more funding, and failed to plug the gap will enable the creation of Local Enterprise n 2008 Party Conferences (Dec 2008) http://bit.ly/RDA2008

e between regions. Partnerships. We will make sure this is not the I Regional Development Agencies Exposed (Jun 2010) g http://bit.ly/RDA2010 RDAs under a new guise. A t n e m

p Scrap Regional Development o l Agencies and cut other e

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a sustaining costly business support n bureaucracies.” o i g e R e v i In 2008 we gave evidence to the House of Commons t

c Business and Enterprise Committee, arguing that RDAs e are a £15 billion failure that have neither accelerated ﬀ economic growth in the regions, nor reduced the e

n disparities between them. I . 7 19 he TPA published the most comprehensive survey of the size and extent Papers of the quango sector in 2009. We listed details of the bodies that are T The Coalition has pledged to cut the cost of quangos

ripe for cuts, such as the Standards Board for England. In How to Save £50 and save £600m. They’ve already culled.... d

I Quangos report 2007-08 ACA to YJB: A guide e

billion we outlined how £1.3 billion could be saved by rationalising some l

to the UK’s semi-autonomous public bodies l quangos and abolishing many others. We’ve also highlighted how a green The Infrastructure Planning Commission (Oct 2009) http://bit.ly/quangos u

quango (the Sustainable Development Commission) operated like a big Regional Local Authority Leaders’ Boards c I Members of the Board: Holding quangos to account (Dec 2009) http://bit.ly/quango2009 political think tank, doing work similar to that performed by Friends of the Tenant Services Authority s o

I Identifying bodies to cut (Mar 2010) Earth. Quangos that are spending taxpayers’ money shouldn’t be engaging The Quali cations and Curriculum Development g

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quangos that need to be abolished and we will w continue to push the Government hard on this issue. f o s n e z o

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“There are 1,148 quangos spending £90 billion of 8 taxpayers’ money a year. Some could be scrapped, for example the School Food Trust, the O ce for Fair Access, Caroline Spelman the Carbon Trust and the Government Equalities O ce.” (Meriden, Conservative) quoted our gures on quango spending in the Reform quangos House of Commons. “Giving select committees control over quango budgets “The TaxPayers’ Alliance estimates that and appointments would mean greater accountability for every year £90 billion of taxpayers’ how quangos regulate and spend taxpayers’ money.” money is spent by unelected quangos” 20 he Prevent Strategy was supposed to be a fund distributed by local councils and the Foreign O!ce in order to stop people from Papers Tbecoming violent extremists. Since Prevent began, there have been ongoing concerns about the groups getting taxpayers’ money and how they were spending it. As a result of our FOI requests, £12 million of spending on the Prevent Strategy was comprehensively

m I Council Spending Uncovered II: Preventing listed by us for the rst time. Our report showed how much each organisation received individually in the 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008- s Violent Extremism Grants (Sep 2009) i http://bit.ly/prevent09 09 nancial years. Skilled policing and robust intelligence are the most eﬀective ways of tackling violent extremism, and these millions

m of pounds of taxpayers' money could have been far better spent. We are therefore delighted that the Government scrapped the local I Foreign O#ce Prevent Grants (Aug 2010) e

r http://bit.ly/FCOprevent government Prevent scheme in July 2010 and we are now urging the Foreign O!ce to scrap their scheme too. t x e d e d

n In July 2009, the Government announced that they

u would scrap Prevent grants to local authorities. But there f

r is still more to do. We now want the Government to

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o from local authorities t “They aren’t an eﬀective way of e

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. Government Committee in the House of Commons asked

9 us to provide evidence for their inquiry into Prevent. We also called for Prevent grants to be scrapped in our book, How to Cut Public Spending (and still win an election) because they aren’t an eﬀective way of confronting extremism, and we feared some of the money may have supported extreme Islamist groups. 21 ver since the launch of the TPA in 2004, one of our key priorities has been E to improve the tax and bene ts system to help the poorest in society. One of Papers our rst publications was a book on the Flat Tax by Allister Heath, Editor of City AM, y t I Flat Tax: Towards a British Model (2006) who argued that the personal allowance should be substantially increased to take e http://bit.ly/attax people on low incomes out of income tax and to dismantle the highly ineﬀective i c

I Tax Burden Highest for the Poorest Households tax credit system which had just been introduced by Gordon Brown. We then o (2007) http://bit.ly/taxburden followed this up with a research paper on how the tax burden was highest for the s

I A taxpayers’ guide to the party political n poorest households in our country and we advocated increasing the personal i responses to the "scal crisis (2009) allowance to £10,000. We were therefore extremely pleased when the Liberal t

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Democrats adopted this policy before the General Election and it is tremendous e I

Welfare reform (2010) r http://bit.ly/welfare2010 news that it was included in the Coalition Agreement. o o p e h t r o

Reform taxes and In the Emergency Budget, the Coalition took the rst step towards a £10,000 personal f bene"ts allowance by announcing that it will increase by £1,000 in April 2011 to £7,475. This is p worth £170 a year to basic rate payers. This simple and sizeable relief will mean around l

“Make the system e 880,000 of the lowest paid people in the UK will now pay no income tax; it will allow the

simpler, improve H

incentives to work and average worker to keep £700 more of their own money. It’s also an incentive for more .

cut costs. The income people to leave bene ts and move into employment. 0 tax threshold should be 1 increased so that we don’t take people’s money in tax then give it back in bene ts.” We released a video, ‘Welfare reform in tough times’, to show why welfare isn’t At the beginning of August, Iain Duncan working. It explains how we can begin Smith announced plans for a much simpler repairing the system and highlights key welfare system where there will now be one points from our ‘Welfare Reform’ report. single rate of bene ts. One of the three http://bit.ly/welfarevid options on the table in his consultation exercise is the TPA suggestion outlined in our July 2010 Welfare report. We will be working closely with Iain Duncan Smith as his consultation progresses. 22

o highlight the crushing size of the national debt, we undertook a 1,500 mile tour of Britain – featuring a T 7 metre long, lorry-mounted digital Debt Clock, ticking up as the Government borrows more and more money. r The message to the nation's politicians was: "Wake up to the National Debt!" u

o The custom-built clock is one metre high by seven metres long, and mounted on the back of a 14m lorry. Its 80cm

T (32 inch), 14-digit red LED display counted up the nation's debt at the breakneck speed of £5,169 per second – that’s

k £446,575,342 per day. Before the Debt Clock we’d campaigned against the Government’s dangerously high levels c of borrowing with research showing that Brown planned to borrow double the debt needed to win WW1. o l C t b

e Papers D I Brown's borrowing will be double the debt

e needed to win World War One (Nov 2008) http://bit.ly/UKdebt h

T I A taxpayers’ guide to the party political responses to the "scal crisis (Dec 2009) http://bit.ly/crisis09 1 I How to Cut Public Spending (Mar 2010)

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A Poll by the TPA found voters blame overspending for the p recession and see tax cuts as the best way to recover. m

67% say we are now paying the price for a government overspending in the good years C 59% see tax cuts as a better response to recession Institute clear "scal than higher spending rules with expenditure 67% think that Gordon Brown should follow the targets example of Ireland’s President and volunteer to “Research by international take a 10% pay cut to help reduce government institutions shows they can overspending help governments balance 68% want a cut in interest rates the books.”

The full poll results can be found here: http://bit.ly/TPApoll 24 uch of our research has highlighted the cost to taxpayers and consumers of the European Union. The campaign M includes detailed research, grassroots action around the country, high pro le stunts and a "agship book,

f The Great European Rip-Oﬀ. We investigate the impact of EU policies, the way the EU spends taxpayers’ money and f the generous perks enjoyed by eurocrats and MEPs. O Papers - As well as our ground-breaking research, the campaign has forced the EU issue into the headlines with a campaign p I The expensive failure of the European Union Emissions i Trading Scheme (Oct 2009) http://bit.ly/ETS2010 of publicity stunts. To highlight the huge sums of money that we are handing to the EU every day, TPA’s own ‘George

R Osborne’ and ‘Danny Alexander’ paid a visit to the London o!ce of the EU Commission earlier this year, to personally I Hague's Handbag: Conservative Party policy after the rati"cation of Lisbon (Nov 2009) http://bit.ly/EUhague hand over a cheque for the £20.8 million (pictured far left). U

E I The Expansion of the EU Quangocracy The ‘Stop the EU Rip-Oﬀ’ campaign remains one of Britain’s most high pro le eurosceptic campaigns. Bill Cash (Mar 2010) http://bit.ly/EUquango

e (Conservative, Stone) had a copy of the The Great European Rip-Oﬀ in his hand when he spoke in the House of Commons I Britain's Justice and Home Aﬀairs Opt Ins h (Apr 2010) http://bit.ly/EUoptin in a debate on the EU. t

I European Union Orchestras (May 2010) p http://bit.ly/EU band o t S As part of the campaign, TaxPayers’

2 Alliance EU policy analyst, Dr Lee Rotherham, released a book Ten Years n On: Britain without the European Union. g

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See page 31 Ten Years On , was promoted in an advertisement, screened in cinemas across the country. 25 You can watch it here: http://bit.ly/TYOad f f O - p i R U E e h t p o t S 2 n g i

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Hold a referendum on fundamental renegotiation of our relationship with the EU. Start EU Reforms “A strengthened FOI, changes to development aid and improvements in scrutiny in the British parliament would greatly improve things pending a more fundamental change in Britain’s relationship with the EU. The Government should also undertake a full cost bene t analysis on EU membership.” 26

he TaxPayers' Alliance has been campaigning against Western taxpayers' money supporting hate education in the T Palestinian Territories since January 2008. We have established an international coalition including partners in

n Germany, Italy, Sweden, France and Slovakia and have received backing from high pro le politicians and organisations

o worldwide. Our research has highlighted how £100 million of British aid money has facilitated radicalisation of the i

t Palestinian population by their leadership in the form of hate education through o!cial radio, television, newspapers and

a even school books. Checks on where British aid money is spent are "awed, and we’ve discovered that as much as 14p in c every pound spent on aid through the Department for International Development (DfID) is lost to non-frontline costs. u d E e t Papers a

H I Funding Hate Education (Jan 2008) http://bit.ly/hate08

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Michael Gove MP has praised the work of the TPA in exposing Palestinian Hate Education: "It is certainly the case the PA has produced or has allowed to be produced textbooks, which in their detail - the TaxPayers' Alliance has done a brilliant job in exposing this – in their detail go beyond the oﬀensive and are just downright evil." 27

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