MPs expenses published
By politics.co.uk staff
Parliament has published details of every MP’s expenses from 2004 to 2008, but there is criticism over the amount of material redacted from the files.
MPs struggled to keep their addresses and some other information secret over concerns for their safety.
But campaigners say most of the worst abuses would have been kept secret under parliament’s version, most notably the process of ‘flipping’ the second home.
Parliament’s full list of MPs’ expenses.
David Cameron has agreed to pay back £947 he admits wrongly claiming.
Among the other highlights of today’s revelations are Tony Blair spending £700 on his second home just two days before his resignation, George Osborne claiming just over £40 for DVDs of his own speeches, and shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, who claimed 1p for a telephone call.
The Telegraph’s drip-feed of expenses claims included those details left out of today’s publication. The paper has suggested it will publish the expenses details in full this Saturday, putting today’s announcement in the shade.
Last night, exchequer secretary Kitty Ussher resigned from the government after just ten days at the Treasury following revelations in today’s Telegraph over avoidance of capital gains tax through ‘flipping’.
