Found: by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Nick Clegg

Found: if donation in kind: £2,000 Donor status: individual (Registered 29 July 2024) Name of donor: Nick Clegg

Found: Trailing online webinars o Updating guidance on equalities legislation and complaint processes  Nick Clegg

Found: /2022/01/scientific-misinformation-report/ 9Combating COVID-19 Misinformation Across Our Apps – Nick Clegg

Found: Relatively recently, former Member of the House, Sir Nick Clegg, who is a very important player in social

Found: Relatively recently, former Member of the House, Sir Nick Clegg, who is a very important player in social

Found: donation in kind: £2,000 Donor status: individual (Registered 29 July 2024) Name of donor: Nick Clegg

Found: I was working on it in the coalition period, with Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and a conservative

Found: David Cameron and Nick Clegg had met the Dalai Lama in secret at St Paul’s Cathedral, the Chinese

Found: For example, deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg described the July 2014 assault that killed

Found: Nick Clegg , former UK deputy prime minister, Speech , 10 May 2010 text available on http://news.bbc.co.uk

Found: The Nick Clegg proposals and the previous proposals under Labour were trying to balance up the benefits

Found: Q243 Mark Garnier: Very quickly on that nuclear theme, was Nick Clegg, when he was Deputy Prime Minster

Found: development of safe and accountable AI systems.”52 For example, when Meta released LLaMa 2, Nick Clegg

Found: president Kent Walker, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, Meta president Nick Clegg

Found: Then Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg MP, was unable to provide a section 19(1)(a) statement because

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Found: Nick Clegg was critical of Congress for not regulating, yet the company does none of the things 28 that

Found: ready for it, they have some of the finest political minds in the world working on it, and Nick Clegg

Found: ready for it, they have some of the finest political minds in the world working on it, and Nick Clegg

Found: ready for it, they have some of the finest political minds in the world working on it, and Nick Clegg

Found: In May 2010, David Cameron and Nick Clegg formed a coalition government with an agreed ambition for Civil

Found: The then Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, expanded on this strategy in the consultation document Unlocking

Although Nick Clegg announced on 3 September 2014 that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will maintain current funding until the end of the 2015 financial year, funding beyond this is unclear.

The ability of Kew to maintain its reputation as an institution at the forefront of botany has been called into question by GMB regional officer Paul Grafton, who said Kew "faced a significant threat to its future" as many of the 125 projected job losses would be in the science directorate.

Andrew Miller MP, Chair of the Science and Technology Committee, said:

"Kew Gardens is a Heritage Site and world-renowned centre for botanical research and like many government-sponsored bodies is being asked to justify its funding and look for possible cuts.

We intend to look at the evidence behind Defra’s budget cuts, Kew’s response to that and the potential impact of both on Kew Gardens’ future as a research and education facility."

The Committee will consider during its evidence session topics such as:

• What makes Kew a pioneering institution in its field?
• Is the government failing in its duty to adequately resource a National Heritage site?
• What is Kew Gardens doing to increase its commercial success and keep operational costs low?
• Was the reduction in funding from Defra, evidence based and focussed on Kew’s world class research status?

Although the committee is not formally requesting written submissions, it is happy to receive correspondence via email on the matter from interested parties.

Evidence Hearing

• Audio link of the Committee's evidence hearing held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on Wednesday 17 December 2014

Written evidence

Written evidence has been submitted to the Committee by the witnesses for the evidence hearing. This evidence can be found at the foot of the webpage, where you will find a green Publications portal. Change type on the drop down menu to Written Evidence and click Go to see these submissions.

Correspondence

The Committee received further submissions which it agreed to publish as correspondence online.

• Correspondence received relating to the evidence hearing on 17 December 2014

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 21 November 2022 (HL Deb, col 1170), whether they update the House on claims made as a result of the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA); when and how a review of the PDCA will take place; and how the National Audit Office is able to distinguish between the costs of paying staff, travel, and accommodation expenses etc. occurring as a result of them working on commercial projects such as memoirs, paid speaking engagements etc. and costs which arise wholly and exclusively as a result of being an ex-Prime Minister.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)

The Public Duty Cost Allowance is specifically reviewed by the National Audit Office (NAO) as part of its annual audit of the Cabinet Office. The 2022-23 NAO audit review was completed in October 2023. The 2023-24 audit review will commence in May 2024.

The offices of the former Prime Ministers receive guidance which stipulates what type of expenses can be reimbursed by the Allowance. Claims, including those for office staff time, are then received by Cabinet Office Finance and include supporting evidence showing how much is related to the Allowance and how much is not.

I would note that the same audit provisions applied when former Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, claimed the Allowance.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government when the next review of the Public Duty Costs Allowance will take place; who will be consulted; what plans they have for recipients to be required to declare their claims upon the fund in a similar fashion to MPs; and whether the review will examine how the use of the allowance for public duties can be distinguished from costs incurred in (1) making fee paying speeches or (2) publishing books.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)

The Public Duty Costs Allowance was introduced to assist former Prime Ministers who are still active in public life. It has operated under successive administrations, including the last Labour Government and the Coalition Government. Exceptionally, a total of £444,775 was paid to the former Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister, Sir Nick Clegg, before he became a senior executive at Facebook.

The allowance is reviewed annually by the Government. The allowance has an annual limit of £115,000, which has remained frozen since 2011. The amount received by each claimant is published annually in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts.

It is not a form of salary; payments are made only to reimburse actual administrative costs incurred in the fulfilment of public duties. Generally, these costs can include managing an office (staffing, payroll and administration); handling correspondence as a former Prime Minister; and support with visits and similar activities. Invoices are submitted to the Cabinet Office to cover relevant costs. In this light, no review of the matters of (1) or (2) is required.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 21 November (HL Deb col 1170) concerning the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA), and the statement that the “Government keep these matters under review and that the level of the limit is reviewed by the Prime Minister, at the start of a Parliament and annually”, what have been the total sums paid to each recipient of the PDCA in each of the years for which they have been able to claim; and what have been the total costs of the scheme to date.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)

The Government does not hold a full record of claims against the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA) going back to 1991 when the allowance was established. The table above provides information from 2009/10 collated from government data.

From the financial year 2013/14, the annual amount of PDCA claimed by each former Prime Minister has been included in the Cabinet Office Annual Reports and Accounts which is published on GOV.UK. The years that have been published in this way are highlighted in Table 1. Prior to 2013, in line with the approach taken on Parliament’s Office Costs Allowance, to which the PDCA was linked, details of claims made by former Prime Ministers were not published.

I would also refer the noble Lord to a written answer provided on 6 April 2010 by the late Baroness Jowell, then Minister for the Cabinet Office (reference 311222) which provides details of total annual claims made against the PDCA in 1997/98-2008/09.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-04-06/debates/1004064000076/PublicDutyCostsAllowance?highlight=office%20costs%20allowance#contribution-1004064000990

Table 1:

The Government does not hold a full record of claims against the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA) going back to 1991 when the allowance was established. The table above provides information from 2009/10 collated from government data.

From the financial year 2013/14, the annual amount of PDCA claimed by each former Prime Minister has been included in the Cabinet Office Annual Reports and Accounts which is published on GOV.UK. The years that have been published in this way are highlighted in Table 1. Prior to 2013, in line with the approach taken on Parliament’s Office Costs Allowance, to which the PDCA was linked, details of claims made by former Prime Ministers were not published.

I would also refer the noble Lord to a written answer provided on 6 April 2010 by the late Baroness Jowell, then Minister for the Cabinet Office (reference 311222) which provides details of total annual claims made against the PDCA in 1997/98-2008/09.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-04-06/debates/1004064000076/PublicDutyCostsAllowance?highlight=office%20costs%20allowance#contribution-1004064000990

Table 1:

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@NicolaSturgeon Nicola Sturgeon is one of the greatest figures in Scottish & British politics. All credit for resigning before people were demanding or expecting it. Harold Wilson did this in 1976, but this is rare. Nick Clegg should have resigned in 2014 before leading Lib Dems to disaster.

My three year old is currently 'facetiming' (her words), using the mirror in the back of her reading book. She's so meta Nick Clegg giving us the explanation of why its not bedtime yet...

“Scotland has a major role to play with an estimated 25% of Europe’s offshore wind potential” The wind strategy was unveiled by LibDem Deputy PM Nick Clegg & Energy Secretary Edward Davey. Today the Libs are on 7% in the polls although in a recent graph it looked more like 3%.

Doesn’t Nick Clegg work for Zuckerberg at Meta as his head of communications? Didn’t he used to be Leader of the LibDems who sold their austerity soul in coalition with the Tories. Bet his mega dollar share options are looking pretty sick now. Don’t you love capitalism?

? Sometimes a party in government just loses the room and it’s impossible to win a hearing again: Major after Black Wednesday, Brown after the non-election in 07, Nick Clegg after fees. All 3 governed responsibly thereafter to their credit despite the inevitability of defeat.

@Bede2Adam The exact reasons are not known. From memory I think Nick Clegg was made a special case (must have pushed for it) for five years. And he has got lucrative jobs since 2015.

@belman297 Nick Clegg gets the allowance. He was Deputy Prime Minister but belonged Lib-Dems who were in coalition and the Tories. That has been interpreted as his entitlement to the allowance. https://t.co/oGrB5TPHsJ

Former PMs get £115k allowance on top of their pension, millions from consultancies. List includes John Major, Gordon Brown, David Cameron. Nick Clegg, Theresa May and will include Boris Johnson & Liz Truss. All applied means-testing for the poor. But it does not apply to them.

It would, in fact, have been an answer. Cheers Nick Clegg, hope you're enjoying life in your cushty new job at Facebook while people freeze this winter as a result of your decisions in Government! https://t.co/7vghOC49Oc

@peterjukes Paul Marshall was always begging Nick Clegg for a Peerage when Nick became Leader, according to Nick Clegg.

Truss sideswipes at Nick Clegg for keeping the number of under fours that can be looked after by one childminder. Ie keeping good standards. I hope that people now recognise the LibDems stopped the Cons doing their worst.

If only Nick Clegg had kept his mouth shut! Such short-termism? https://t.co/JDx9U4C8Za

@David_K_Clark And also together with Tory rebels blocked reform again under the Coalition solely because they didn't want to give Nick Clegg a win

@darrencowell @trussliz and I can remember the long standing Labour activist Darren Cowell having a go at the Lib Dems for a coalition, now playing the Nick Clegg Deputy role in one himself.......

Found: considering.1219 On 30 September 2010, Andrew Lansley wrote formally to the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg

Found: Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition - Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

Found: President of Global Affairs at Meta Sir Nick Clegg said: Everyone has a responsibility to ensure AI

Found: President of Global Affairs at Meta Sir Nick Clegg said: Everyone has a responsibility to ensure AI

Found: Learn OpenAI also does red teaming (see examples above at paragraphs 5.6 and 5.12) a s does Meta - Nick Clegg

Found: received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Nick Clegg

Found: received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Nick Clegg

Found: received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Nick Clegg

Found: received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Nick Clegg

Found: considering.1219 On 30 September 2010, Andrew Lansley wrote formally to the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg

Found: political support for WAVE Trust’s 70/30 proposals. ..The benefits are potentially huge’ Rt Hon Nick Clegg

Found: In 2015 he ran to represent the Sheffield Hallam constituency, but lost out to Nick Clegg.

Found: In 2015 he ran to represent the Sheffield Hallam constituency, but lost out to Nick Clegg.

Found: What we have got in the United Kingdom is three party leaders – Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and David Cameron

Found: What we have got in the United Kingdom is three party leaders – Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and David Cameron

Found: Conservatives in a coalition government led by David Cameron, who became prime minister on May 1 1, and Nick Clegg