The Party Machine Swings Behind Tessa
Thank you for your email regarding Tessa Jowell.
In response to the Cabinet Secretary's published reply to Theresa May, the PM said:
"Tessa Jowell is an excellent minister who is widely respected. I have full confidence in her.
"The allegation is that Tessa Jowell's husband received a gift and that she did not report it to her Permanent Secretary. Under the Ministerial Code, Ministers are obliged to report any gift.
"Tessa Jowell has stated categorically that she did not know of the existence of any such sum of money until August 2004. At this time her husband told her that he had received a sum of money that he thought was a gift but which had been classified by the Inland Revenue as earnings, so that tax had to be paid on it. As a result there was no obligation to report it since by the time she knew of it, it had been designated as earnings. I accept Tessa's assurance that she did not know about it until the issue was resolved with the Inland Revenue."
In response to the Cabinet Secretary's published reply to Theresa May, the PM said:
"Tessa Jowell is an excellent minister who is widely respected. I have full confidence in her.
"The allegation is that Tessa Jowell's husband received a gift and that she did not report it to her Permanent Secretary. Under the Ministerial Code, Ministers are obliged to report any gift.
"Tessa Jowell has stated categorically that she did not know of the existence of any such sum of money until August 2004. At this time her husband told her that he had received a sum of money that he thought was a gift but which had been classified by the Inland Revenue as earnings, so that tax had to be paid on it. As a result there was no obligation to report it since by the time she knew of it, it had been designated as earnings. I accept Tessa's assurance that she did not know about it until the issue was resolved with the Inland Revenue."
posted by Dicky Entrails at 6:36 AM
1 Comments:
Have you read The New Statesman ?
So Janet Paraskeva, Prez of The Law Society is to be appointed to a Dept of Culture Quango at the Notional Lottery............and the Law Society has found no reason to investigate mr David Mills over the past decade.................
It is almost as good as having a sister-in-law as Head of the SFO; DPP, and Adjudicator at the HMCR
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