MPs' expenses investigation in depth Douglas Alexander: spent more than £30,000 doing up his constituency home – which then suffered damage in a house fire. Margaret Beckett: £600 claim for hanging baskets and pot plants Hazel Blears: claims for three different properties in a year Gordon Brown: house swap let PM claim thousands Andy Burnham: had an eight-month battle with the fees office after making a single expenses claim for more than £16,500 Alistair Darling: stamp duty paid by public Caroline Flint: claimed £14,000 for fees for new flat Geoff Hoon: established a property empire worth £1.7 million after claiming taxpayer-funded expenses for at least two properties Lord Mandelson: questions over timing of his house claim David Miliband: spending challenged by his gardener Paul Murphy: had a new plumbing system installed at taxpayers’ expense because the water in the old one was “too hot” John Prescott: two lavatory seats in two years Jack Straw: only paid half the amount of council tax that he claimed back on his parliamentary allowances over four years Shaun Woodward: millionaire minister received £100,000 to help pay mortgage Phil Hope spent more than £10,000 in one year refurbishing a small London flat Keith Vaz claimed £75,500 for a second flat near Parliament even though he already lived just 12 miles from Westminster Michael Martin used taxpayers' money to pay for chauffeur-driven cars to his local job centre and Celtic's football ground Vera Baird tried to claim the cost of Christmas tree decorations Greg Barker made a £320,000 profit selling a flat the taxpayer had helped pay for Margaret Moran switched the address of her second home, allowing her to claim £22,500 to fix a dry rot problem Ben Bradshaw used his allowance to pay the mortgage interest on a flat he owned jointly with his boyfriend Phil Woolas submitted receipts including comics, nappies and women's clothing as part of his claims Barbara Follett used £25,000 of taxpayers' money to pay for private security patrols at her home Barry Gardiner made £198,500 profit from a flat funded and refurbished at taxpayers' expense. Alex Salmond claimed £400 per month for food when the Commons was not even sitting Scandal revealed of how absent Sinn Fein MPs have milked second-home expenses system for nearly £500,000.MPs' expenses: Full list of MPs investigated by the Telegraph
All of the MPs named by the Telegraph's investigation into how politicians - from Gordon Brown and his Cabinet to backbenchers of all parties - exploited the system of parliamentary allowances to subsidise their lifestyles and multiple homes.
MPs' expenses: Sinn Fein's £500,000 for second homes
Sunday, 10 May 2009
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