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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 05:58 PM
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More Cameron and Coulsen-Andy Coulson 'broke' Commons pass rules by failing to declare NI payments
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/24/andy-coulson-news-international-payments
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Andy Coulson appears to have broken House of Commons rules by failing to declare payments and benefits he received from News International while holding a parliamentary pass sponsored by David Cameron.

Registers held in the Commons archive, seen by the Guardian, reveal that in September 2007 – three months after Coulson was employed by Cameron's office – the former News of the World editor failed to declare the health insurance, company car and severance payments he was receiving from his old employers.

The records also show that for at least two months after he resigned from his position as No 10's head of communications in January this year, Coulson continued to hold a parliamentary pass, sponsored by Downing Street, which allowed him access to parliament as a No 10 employee.

That will raise new questions about whether Coulson – who Cameron has admitted seeing on a social basis since his resignation – continued to perform an unofficial role for the Tories after he had left.

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