Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Here is some breaking news released by SKY newsdesk
The House of Commons has published details of what was spent on accommodation, office, communications and incidental items from the second and third quarters of the 2009-10 financial year.
Altogether MPs claimed £10,054,521.97 between July and December, according to the database.
Prime Minister David Cameron claimed £12,974.88.
The material released by the Commons covers subsistence, parking, and toll charges for staff - but not their salaries.
Among the quirkier claims were £162 for a pedestal fan, from David Davies, and 16p for stationery, from Douglas Carswell
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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All this was after the 'scandal'. You think they would learn their lesson...but apparently not!!
Sorry no idea how the above got posted twice?
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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So what is actually wrong with those expenses.
I have a pedestal fan in my office with no air conditioning, a vald business expense and tax deductable. Stationary, regardless of the value is of course a perfectly valid claim regardless.
So what lesson does what you say above show has not been learnt. If there is one then expose it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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barry
the point is you paid for yours out of your company and rightly claimed tax deductable.
the other one was purchased with our money.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It is perfectly reasonable to spend expenses of ensuring your staff have reasonable working conditions in the summer heat. In fact it would have been very poor for him not to. Just becasue you work in an MP's office does not mean yiou should have to suffer poor conditions any more than I and my administrator. That was a perfectly reasonable office expense.
Brian Dixon
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barryw, let me get this right,you say that its ok for cameron or who ever from the tory party to buy the fan on expences but not any labour people.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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No Brian why on earth would I suggest that....certainly not. Weird point you are making.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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still a point barry,if labour were still in power there would be uproar in da house.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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No Howard as it is nothing at all to do with party or government, it is about MP expenses.
So, what you are actually saying in a roundabout way is, civil servants are not allowed to buy stationery or indeed fans for hot weather conditions. Perhaps our DDC Obersturmfuhrer Watty would care to comment? Better still, any Unite or Unison or Bite or Bison member would care to comment too, particulalrly as you are denying their members basic creature comforts and th tools to do the job.
Not getting desperate perhaps? Send for the Millivanilli brothers!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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barry
you seem to have confused me with someone else.
i have never intimated that fiddling was party related.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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sid
what was that all about in post 30, have you been snorting something?
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Meant Brian Howard.......
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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An MP purchases a fan and another some paper then they claim that cost back from their employer "US".
I did the same thing this week, I purchased a fan for the office and claimed it back from my employer.
It was said that MPs claimed £10,054,521.97 between July and December, which appears a lot but I think there has to be better examples of fiddling than getting a fan and some paper and if there is not then maybe just maybe they have learned their lesson..
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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True Harry.