The City regulator has lashed out at the ‘scourge’ of online investment fraud which is causing untold damage to Britain’s savers and the legitimate businesses trying to serve them. Mark Steward, an executive director at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), said the watchdog has already issued 632 specific warnings about scam firms this year – … Read more
House of Lords standards watchdog finds 47 peers breached code of conduct by failing to attend ‘Valuing Everyone’ anti-bullying training but lets them off with a slap on the wrist as four remain under investigation Independent House of Lords Commissioner for Standards has published report It found that 47 peers breached code of conduct by … Read more
House of Lords standards watchdog finds 47 peers breached code of conduct by failing to attend ‘Valuing Everyone’ anti-bullying training but lets them off with a slap on the wrist as four remain under investigation Independent House of Lords Commissioner for Standards has published report It found that 47 peers breached code of conduct by … Read more
Tory MPs vow to stop Boris Johnson being suspended from the House of Commons over his ‘freebie’ Mustique trip with Carrie Symonds by rejecting the verdict of the standards watchdog MPs threatening to vote down Boris Johnson sanction if Kathryn Stone calls for it Senior Tory said the PM’s mandate cannot be ‘overturned by a standards … Read more
Google must already be used to getting fined by antitrust watchdogs all over the world. The latest one that they have received is a $123M fine from Italy’s Antitrust Authority (AGCM) due to a third-party app that was restricted from Android Auto. The watchdog said that Google violated Article 102 of the Treaty on the … Read more
Flawed figures led to building of thousands of homes on green belt land, watchdog says Inaccurate stats were used to justify building of thousands of homes in Coventry It had been thought city’s population would rise by 32 per cent from 2011 to 2031 Campaigners say it was wrongly thought foreign students would stay in … Read more
City watchdog pays Google £600k of taxpayers’ money on adverts in war on scammers By Lucy White and Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 10 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 10 May 2021 The City watchdog spent almost £600,000 of taxpayers’ money on Google adverts last year as it tried to … Read more
Telecoms companies need to go further in tackling customer service problems, despite the support they offered during the pandemic, the industry watchdog says. Ofcom’s warning comes after it revealed that customers waited an average of four minutes and nine seconds to get through to an adviser about their broadband and landline in 2020, an increase … Read more
Britain’s electoral watchdog, which is investigating Boris Johnson’s ‘cash for curtains’ flat makeover at No 10, was last night branded ‘biased’, ‘incompetent’ and ripe for abolition. Tory MPs tore into the Electoral Commission’s ‘lamentable record’ and urged the Prime Minister to press ahead with replacing it. Senior Tory backbencher Peter Bone led the charge, saying the … Read more
Britain’s electoral watchdog, which is investigating Boris Johnson’s ‘cash for curtains’ flat makeover at No 10, was last night branded ‘biased’, ‘incompetent’ and ripe for abolition. Tory MPs tore into the Electoral Commission’s ‘lamentable record’ and urged the Prime Minister to press ahead with replacing it. Senior Tory backbencher Peter Bone led the charge, saying the … Read more