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Margaret Hodge

Type: Person

Name: Margaret Hodge

Title: Minister of State, Children and Young People - Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom)

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 15 reports

£100m debacle at BBC: After years of waste and chaos, failing IT scheme is finally axed by humiliated corporation

DG Tony Hall has 'serious concerns' about the project's managementBBC's Chief Technology Officer suspended pending investigationDigital Media Initiative (DMI) was supposed to give staff archive accessBy Alasdair Glennie DM.has('shareLinkTop', 'shareLinks', ... [Published Mail Online UK - 3 hours ago]

Entities: BBC British Broadcasting Corp, Margaret Hodge, Peter Coles, Public Accounts Committee

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 2 reports

Google Inc

Google signals it's on the road to a $1bn bid for satnav start-up Waze on road

Google is reportedly eyeing a bid of $1 billion (pounds sterling 725 million) or more for Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze, just as the internet giant faces a fresh probe into its dominance in America.A bidding war for Waze is now in ... [Published Individual.com - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Waze Inc, Google Inc, Margaret Hodge, Location-Based Service, Federal Trade Commission

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

BLOG: What consumers really think about corporate tax avoidance

This week Baker Tilly commissioned a short survey of 100 UK consumers on their views on corporate tax.It asked which was worse - US companies avoiding paying tax in the UK, or UK companies not paying enough tax in this country. Unsurprisingly, nearly ... [Published Your Money - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Taxes, Tax Avoidance, Margaret Hodge, United Kingdom

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

BBC British Broadcasting Corp

Margaret Hodge: PAC aim to look into £100m BBC IT failure

Chair of the Public Accounts Committee Margaret Hodge tells Radio 4's World at One that her Committee want to 'look in more detail' at the failed £100m BBC IT scheme. ... [Published PoliticsHome - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Margaret Hodge, BBC British Broadcasting Corp, Public Accounts Committee

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Nick Clegg

Bill Carmichael: Firms pay price for obeying law

THE fashionable vilification of successful businesses shows no sign of diminishing – in fact if anything it is getting worse. In recent days David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, the US Congress, the EU, Oxfam, Christian Aid and the House of Commons ... [Published Yorkshire Post - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Taxes, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, House of Commons of the United Kingdom

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Capitalism is about profit, not charity

Bookshop owners Keith Smith and his wife Frances pictured on a box containing a petition signed by people calling on Amazon to pay their fair share of UK tax. (AFP)Our CoverageMore CoverageLast week, I was waiting in the queue at the butcher while an ... [Published Mail & Guardian Online - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Keith Smith, Margaret Hodge, Taxes

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 2 reports

NHS

NHS accused of incompetence over Tamiflu stockpiling

The NHS has been accused of "shocking incompetence" after it wrote off £74m worth of influenza vaccine doses when they became unusable after being stored incorrectly.The chairman of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee Margaret Hodge also criticised ... [Published Pharmacy Magazine - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Tamiflu, Incompetence, NHS

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

The long recession has one silver lining; EU leaders are finally tackling 'tax shopping' head on

It’s not just in Britain that the tax avoidance habits of huge corporations are making people angry. The European Union may not have an exact equivalent of the formidable Margaret Hodge, MP , who gave Google’s Matt Brittin such a tongue-lashing some days ... [Published The Independent - May 23 2013]

Entities: Recession, European Union, Taxes

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Tax policy under the spotlight

For Ireland, and for Taoiseach Enda Kenny, the issue of tax evasion, tax avoidance, and tax havens could not have surfaced at a less opportune time. Ireland currently holds the presidency of the European Union, and Mr Kenny yesterday chaired a one-day ... [Published Irish Times - May 23 2013]

Entities: Ireland, Tax-Haven, Enda Kenny, Taxes

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

UKIP Call on HMRC to Investigate Hodge the Dodge

UKIP economic spokesman Godfrey Bloom has gone after Margaret Hodge, demanding that HMRC “investigate unanswered questions from C4 News, Sky News and Guido Fawkes about her ‘knowledge’ of the tax affairs of her family trust”: “It beggars belief that Hodge ... [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - May 23 2013]

Entities: Margaret Hodge, Stemcor Holdings Ltd, Taxes, Godfrey Bloom, Guido Fawkes

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Police clash with EDL supporters in Woolwich

Zoom.in: (23-05-2013 11:10) London Police clashed with protesters in Woolwich city’s south east Wednesday following the brutal attack in which two men hacked another man to death with butcher’s knives.News View all News videosMargaret Hodge grills Google ... [Published Zoom.in - May 23 2013]

Entities: Woolwich (United Kingdom), Police, Margaret Thatcher

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 10 reports

HMRC 'will miss tax fraud target'

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will fail to hit a target of reducing tax credit fraud, which is likely to "cost the taxpayer dear".A group of MPs have claimed the body will reduce instances of error and extortion by £3 billion, despite being challenged ... [Published Knowledge To Action - May 22 2013]

Entities: HM Revenue & Customs, Tax Fraud, Fraud, Margaret Hodge, Claimant

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£100m debacle at BBC: After years of waste and ... [Published Mail Online UK - 3 hours ago]
BBC bins its bid to ditch video tapes - and wri... [Published Equities.com - 6 hours ago]
Major Coalition projects like aircraft carriers... [Published Telegraph - 6 hours ago]
BBC admits wasting £98MILLION of licence fee pa... [Published Mirror.co.uk - 8 hours ago]
Digital production system was £98m shambles [Published Radio New Zealand - 8 hours ago]
BBC suspends technology officer after Digital M... [Published Guardian.co.uk - 9 hours ago]
BBC ends digital plan – after a £100m bill [Published The Independent - 9 hours ago]
BBC Suspends Technology Chief as £100m Digital ... [Published International Business Times UK - 11 hours ago]
DG: ‘We wasted £100m’, BBC CTO suspended [Published Advanced Television - 11 hours ago]
BBC cans tapeless Digital Media Initiative [Published IT Pro UK - 12 hours ago]
Google signals it's on the road to a $1bn bid f... [Published Individual.com - 12 hours ago]
BLOG: What consumers really think about corpora... [Published Your Money - 13 hours ago]
BBC suspends CTO after £98m loss on failed digi... [Published V3.co.uk - 13 hours ago]
BBC technology chief suspended over £100m faile... [Published Computerworld UK - 13 hours ago]
BBC scraps £100m IT project and suspends CTO Jo... [Published Computing.co.uk - 14 hours ago]
Margaret Hodge: PAC aim to look into £100m BBC ... [Published PoliticsHome - 15 hours ago]
Good money after bad: BBC wastes £100m on digit... [Published Yorkshire Post - 15 hours ago]
Breaking News BBC Wastes £100m On Scrapped IT P... [Published Sky News - 16 hours ago]
BBC spends £98.4 million on failed DMI project [Published Media Tel - 16 hours ago]
BBC Ditches £100m Digital Drive And Suspends CTO [Published TechWeekEurope UK - 16 hours ago]
Bill Carmichael: Firms pay price for obeying law [Published Yorkshire Post - 16 hours ago]
BBC scraps digital archive after wasting 100m a... [Published Herald Scotland - 16 hours ago]
Google signals it’s on the road to a $1bn bid f... [Published London Evening Standard - 17 hours ago]
BBC axes £98m technology project to avoid 'thro... [Published Guardian.co.uk - 17 hours ago]
Capitalism is about profit, not charity [Published Mail & Guardian Online - 18 hours ago]
NHS accused of incompetence over Tamiflu stockp... [Published Pharmacy Magazine - 19 hours ago]
The long recession has one silver lining; EU le... [Published The Independent - May 23 2013]
‘Our HS2 plan saves hundreds of homes’ – rail l... [Published Camden New Journal - May 23 2013]
Failure to hit tax credit fraud targets 'costi... [Published Tax Assist Accountants - May 23 2013]
NHS accused of incompetence over Tamiflu stockp... [Published PJ Online - May 23 2013]

Blogs

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UKIP Call on HMRC to Investigate Hodge the Dodge [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - May 23 2013] UKIP economic spokesman Godfrey Bloom has gone after Margaret Hodge, demanding that HMRC “investigate unanswered questions from C4 News, Sky News and Guido Fawkes about her ‘knowledge’ of the tax affairs of her family trust”: “It beggars belief that Hodge ...
By standing up to Google over tax, Ed Miliband ... [Published News » Politics - May 22 2013] Ed Miliband achieved a political first today when he used Have I Got News For You's "odd one out" round as his inspiration for a political speech. One wonders what the audience at Google's Big Tent event in Hertfordshire made of it when images flashed ...
First, David Cameron should bring his own tax h... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - May 21 2013] Pressing the G8 to get tough on avoidance is hypocrisy while British dependencies like the Caymans are still in business I cannot see the point of tax havens . Or rather, I can see the point, but not why we tolerate them. They are licensed theft from ...
Ed’s Evening With Evil Eric [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - May 21 2013] Dave dodged the opportunity to ask Google supremo Eric Schmidt about his company’s commendable methods of legally maximising their shareholders’ profits when the pair met yesterday . Surely tomorrow Ed will keep his own promise and grill Schmidt about ...
Cameron’s tax tightrope [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - May 21 2013] David Cameron didn’t spend yesterday wringing his hands in Downing Street about the progress of his gay marriage bill: he was meeting his business advisory group. He allowed Google CEO Eric Schmidt to sneak out via the No 10 back door, a rather awkward ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: Hodge: 'Many risks' in defence budget [Published BBC News Video - Politics - May 14 2013]
AUDIO: Olympic loan 'must be recouped' [Published BBC News Video - Business - Apr 19 2013]
AUDIO: Public accounts 'should be simpler' [Published BBC News Video - Politics - Apr 11 2013]
VIDEO: Welfare-to-work scheme 'abysmal' [Published BBC News Video - Business - Feb 22 2013]
VIDEO: Tax avoidance like 'David and Goliath' [Published BBC News Video - Business - Jan 31 2013]