More MPs expenses details revealed (From Bournemouth Echo)
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More MPs expenses details revealed
9:04am Tuesday 23rd June 2009 in
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- By Sam Shepherd » Digital Projects Coordinator
From today, the Daily Telegraph is publishing uncensored details of MPs expense claims.
The paper is releasing the data day by day but there are already some details avaailable on all Dorset's MPs.
The letter telling Bournemouth MP Tobias Ellwood he could not claim for loft access in his flat - but suggesting he could remortgage and claim a higher ACA payment that way - is online.
The letter Sir John Butterfill wrote that revealed his 'staff annexe' is also published, revealing some impatience on the part of the MP that the Inland Revenue 'insist on rating it seperately'.
Robert Syms claim for a sofa, Desmond Swayne's £6131 kitchen and Jim Knight's mortgage claims are also revealed - including many details to visible in the official published data.
Follow the links below to see what the Telegraph have published so far.
See all our expenses stories and graphs by clicking here
Full story to come. For more detail and analysis see tomorrow's paper.
Comments(2)
corngoat
says...
12:59pm Tue 23 Jun 09
How can these people, having a mortgage interest of over £2000 paid for them have any idea what real life is all about.
I doubt if I will ever bring myself to vote again.
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nigel24 says...
9:30am Tue 23 Jun 09
hen they submitted their claims did they not have a conscience.Having studied Tobias Ellwood's claims in which he claimed for food,military balance books,carpet,curtain
s,bed and mortgage interest of over £2,000 a month and a whole host of other things has left a very sour taste in my mouth