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I'm interviewing Andrew Mitchell, the international development secretary, later this week and this could be a good starting point. But I'm looking for a wide range of questions. What do you think I should ask him?In a speech last year Mitchell said that since he became international development secretary in 2010 he had spent his time trying to "turn the Department for International Development into a department of state,
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You could say that people who earn more than £200,000, say, would not get the benefit of the 20 per cent rate either. They would pay 40 per cent, or 45 per cent,
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The biggest claim to be rejected came from Conservative Erewash MP Jessica Lee for a £166.26 electricity bill for her constituency office. Ipsa said she had provided insufficient evidence to support the claim. Photograph: PR 1.44pm: One of my theories about political news is that the best speeches - ie, the cleverest, or most interesting - are the ones that receive least attention. Today's speech on executive pay from Chuka Umunna (left), the shadow business secretary, is a very good example. I haven't heard it mentioned on the BBC or Sky all day and, in news terms, that's not surprising. Last week, late on Friday, Umunna put out a statement saying that Labour would accept in full the recommendation of the High Pay Commission (presumably to pre-empt the announcement that David Cameron was going to make about executive pay at the weekend).
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"In 32 states for which data are available,state tax collections in the first ten months of fiscal year 2013 were 5.7 percent higher than in the same period last year,on average," the report says. Most of the growth is in income tax receipts—up 8.9 percent on average—but sales tax receipts are up as well.Figures from another organization,
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