Richard Taylor

On the 27th of February 2012 I attended a public meeting called by Cambridgeshire County Council’s Independent Remuneration Panel and held in Cambridge.
The panel is charged with recommending the level of expenses and allowances which councillors ought receive from the council. Councillors will ultimately decide their own expenses and allowances scheme at a full [...]

At their meeting on Tuesday the 18th of October 2011 Cambridgeshire County Council approved the recommendations of a report from an independent panel which proposed an increase in councillors basic allowances from £7,610 to £9,500, as well as increases in the additional allowances for the leader of the council and cabinet members. The leader will [...]

One of the most important jobs in the Cambridge and UK economy is currently being advertised. Cambridge Enterprise, the body responsible for commercialising the University of Cambridge’s intellectual property, is seeking a Chief Executive. Cambridge Enterprise is responsible for looking after the university’s stake in patents, spin out companies, looking after the university’s [...]

Cambridge MP Julian Huppert now has a taxpayer funded second home in London.

The latest round of publication of MP’s expenses has revealed that Cambridge’s MP Julian Huppert now has a second home in London, paid for at our expense.
We are paying £1,170 a month in rent for Mr Huppert’s London property. We also cover [...]

Councillors deemed this path the worst on Jesus Green and earmarked £30K for work on it.

I observed Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area Committee on Tuesday the 21st of June 2011.
Councillors decided to provisionally allocate around £30,000 to what their officers described as the worst path on Jesus Green - the one from (not under) [...]