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Here’s a link to one of their papers which includes an extensive list of those involved. I’ve added this as a pic with the people I clocked involved in the conference highlighted – there may be more involved/attending.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37740918/
#GreatestMEdicalScandal
#MEAwarenessMonth
![Page 192 of the Annual report
and accounts 2023 to 2024 from the UK Cabinet Office, reads:
4.1. Public Duty Cost Allowance
The Public Duty Cost Allowance was introduced to assist former Prime Ministers still active in public life. The Public Duty Cost Allowance is a reimbursement of incurred expenses for necessary office and secretarial costs arising from fulfilling public duties to a maximum of £115,000.
In addition to the Public Duty Cost Allowance paid, former Prime Ministers are entitled to claim a pension allowance to contribute towards the pension costs of their office staff. This pension allowance is limited to a maximum of 10% of their claimed Public Duty Cost Allowance.
The Rt Hon Sir John Major
2023-24 115,000
2022-23 115,000
The Rt Hon Sir Tony Blair
2023-24 115,000
2022-23 115,000
The Rt Hon Gordon Brown
2023-24 114,788
2022-23 114,627
The Rt Hon Lord David Cameron
2023-24 68,546 [superscript]11
2022-23 108,312
The Rt Hon Lady Theresa May
2023-24 113,475
2022-23 113,422
The Rt Hon Liz Truss
2023-24 101,332
2022-23 23,310
The Rt Hon Boris Johnson [superscript]12
2023-24 182,083
Staff pension costs
2023-24 26,121
2022-23 27,996
Total
2023-24 836,345
2022-23 617,667
[superscript]11 The Rt Hon Lord David Cameron stopped receiving the allowance when he was appointed the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on 13 November 2023.
[superscript]12 The Rt Hon Boris Johnson was eligible to claim the Public Duty Cost Allowance, however no claims were received in 2022 to 2023. Due to 2022 to 2023 being the first year of set up, the Cabinet Office has agreed to reimburse these costs in 2023 to 2024. All future office costs are to be claimed in-year with claims received by
31 March. 2022 to 2023 office costs amounted to £67,083.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vudloe6qtfk6nmg4fcwupcdi/bafkreiclj5yp7csoif5cuox4ksgqdeqmdv66c44z5bb2oqnaxyojefpd7q)
![A letter written by typewriter on white paper with black ink, that has a watermark repeated over it saying ’Photo AR/CF 2011’. It reads:
from Dr. A. MELVIN RAMSAY
Tel: 01-647 9806
BRAMBLE HAW COTTAGE
40 WESTCROFT ROAD
CARSHALTON
SURREY
SM5 2TG
20th November 1989.
Dear Edith,
I feel very ashamed that I have not been able to reply to your letter in which you gave me the address of Dr. Margaret Macpherson and Dr. Margaret Hunt. I should have admitted long ago that I can
no longer cope with the amount of correspondence that pours in on me. I have told the Association that they must pay for secretarial assistance but how much longer will we have an Association. On Friday last a call was made for the resignation of the Chairman but he refused to vacate the chair. For many months we have been in difficulty by the influence exerted by a psychiatrist, Dr. Simon Wessly [sic] who has secured for himself the position of referee to the BMJ whose Assistant Editor has been strongly anti-ME and we cannot get anything published in British medical journals in our favour. Simon Wessly [sic] cuts right across my fundamental tenet of 'rest' for chronic M.E. cases and tries to get them admitted to Psychiatric Units where they are immediately put on vigorous exercise. Of course Professor E. Edwards in Liverpool has done the same for many years past. The enoucaging [sic] thing is that the 450 questionnaires I sent out have not been thoroughly sifted by Dr. E.G.Dowsett and are confirming my views on the aetiology of M.E. beyond anything I had expected and I am certain we shall win the day at the International Symposium to be held in Cambridge April 12th - 13th. Dr. Simon Wessly will have no say in the publication of those proceedings.
I will let you know what is going to happen about the Chairmanship of the M.E. Association.
Yours Sincerely,
Melvin
ps. I have not been ar [sic] all well but am slowly recovering again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vudloe6qtfk6nmg4fcwupcdi/bafkreidlxxjcvw5vgkpdjewhhycjz7blciqqycu3xpzygakcqapuuopgli)
