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David Hencke

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David Hencke was the Westminster correspondent of The Guardian from 1986 to 2009. He is an award-winning journalist, and author with Francis Beckett of an unauthorised biography of Tony Blair, ‘The Survivor: Tony Blair in War and Peace’, and of ‘Marching to the Fault Line’, which examined the 1984 miners’ strike in the UK. Contact: news@exaronews.net.

PIECES BY David Hencke

Found: 2,000 civil servants working ‘off payroll’ | 826 words
Home Office lines up A4e for major new contract | 781 words
Whitehall review of civil servants’ contracts delayed | 563 words
MP challenges ministers over Whitehall tax row | 711 words
BBC pays 3,000 people via personal companies | 703 words
Lester to close personal company following tax row | 482 words
Hodge: Whitehall is trying to dismantle watchdog | 756 words
Letters detailing ‘Whitehall war with MPs’ revealed | 395 words
Revealed: Whitehall declares war on Parliament | 831 words
E-mails add to pressure over Whitehall tax deals | 694 words
SLC e-mail asked: is risk worth running on Lester deal? | 695 words
Lester deal agreed despite being SLC accounting officer | 458 words
KPMG initially told SLC: deduct tax from Lester’s pay | 592 words
Top nuclear regulator fired for being paid ‘off payroll’ | 909 words
Whitehall widens inquiry into civil servants’ contracts | 747 words
Former cabinet secretary: ‘content’ with SLC tax deal | 492 words
Revealed: why O’Donnell approved tax arrangements | 706 words
MPs challenge ministers over top official’s tax deal | 502 words
Revealed: special tax deal approved for senior official | 742 words
Alexander and Willetts ‘agreed contract for SLC chief’ | 701 words
‘Tax efficient’ arrangements for loans boss uncovered | 714 words
How ‘consultant’ civil servants can reduce tax burden | 841 words
SLC agreed payment route after hasty appointment | 696 words
‘Tax deal is personal,’ but Alexander orders inquiry | 674 words
Hunt plans to replace PCC with new Press regulator | 700 words
Online publications face regulation under Hunt proposals | 460 words
Hunt talks to Exaro about his vision for ‘new PCC’ | 800 words
New MPs ‘might regret’ not going to seminars on code | 564 words
Auditors force Treasury to re-think debt assessment | 831 words
Audit Commission auditors help bids for contracts | 723 words
Agency names approved bidders for auditing work | 429 words
Auditors attack Osborne’s new UK debt assessment | 722 words
Lawson condemns markets for being ‘superficial’ | 566 words
Europe ‘must dismantle euro in orderly way,’ says Lawson | 595 words
Named: the public bodies set to escape audit | 554 words
Public bodies with £1m-plus budgets to be spared audit | 553 words
BBC wins battle to block ‘unfettered access’ for auditors | 722 words
Dear minister: how Hunt helped BBC neuter auditors | 881 words
Auditors question £13bn of government spending | 412 words
Auditors cast doubt on MoD equipment worth £5.3bn | 432 words
Defra audit reveals £175m ‘fines’ to EU over subsidies | 532 words
Auditors qualify DWP accounts for 22nd time over errors | 431 words
Tax credits of up to £2.7bn ‘paid wrongly’ by HMRC | 416 words
BBC delays auditors’ examination of ‘efficiency drive’ | 864 words
Pickles plans no audit for £2bn of public spending | 480 words
Nearly 10,000 public bodies set to escape audit | 400 words
Councils to be asked to adopt business-style audit | 756 words
Audit reforms threaten higher costs to councils | 345 words
Public set to lose right to call for spending investigation | 339 words
Auditing shake-up ‘set to cost £120m,’ say MPs | 448 words

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