So following a meeting of the House Committee of the House of Lords, and at their request, I have today written to the senior salaries review body to ask them to review the system of financial support in the House of Lords to increase accountability, transparency and reduce cost.

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Jeff Friedman of Critical Review and Wladmir Kraus have investigated how these new rules warped the financial system, making it dangerously exposed to the mortgage market.

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