Sentences with phrase «second home allowance»

The latest details of expenses claimed by MPs under the controversial second homes allowance have been made public.

Tomorrow second home allowance details come out for the year.

The Conservatives are prepared to support certain measures such as the removal of second home allowances for ministers in grace and favour properties - a reform which was in fact first proposed by David Cameron - but want voters to be able to Google MPs» expenses.

Martin Salter, Celia Barlow and Geoffrey Robinson are the three Labour MPs from constituencies outside London not to have claimed a penny in second homes allowance last year.

He favours a form of second homes allowance that would only cover the costs of accommodation and domestic bills, with MPs required to provide receipts.

This weekend chancellor Alistair Darling and defence secretary Geoff Hoon joined home secretary Jacqui Smith and employment minister Tony McNulty in being implicated in the controversy over second home allowance.

Ann Widdecombe, MP for Maidstone and The Weald, claimed just # 858 in second home allowances last year and says MPs who have abused the system should stand down.

We called for a ban on ministers claiming second home allowances when they enjoy a grace and favour home.

Relatively uncontroversial expenses claims include maximum second home allowance for past two years.

The issue of Lords» expenses is already seeping out - there is an expectation of more revelations to come, particularly about second home allowances.

However, the most contentious issue - the # 24,000 - a-year second homes allowance available to all non-London MPs - will now be looked at by the independent Committee on Standards in Public Life.

Calls to reform second home allowances have increased, with revelations about several MPs» use of the money.

But later switched to the more generous second homes allowance - claiming # 18,181 in total, the newspaper said.

Claim: The Telegraph says the deputy speaker claimed # 142,119 in second homes allowances since 2001, despite having no mortgage on the property.

Amid the negative headlines generated by its revelations, there remain MPs from outside London who, in the year to April 2008, claimed none or only a fraction of the # 24,000 second homes allowance designed to cover the costs of them having to be in the capital on parliamentary business.

It follows reports she had allowed her parents to live in a property on which she claimed # 90,718 in second home allowances during the last parliament.

Mr Brown then moved from the Westminster flat to Number 10 Downing Street and spent second home allowances on gardening and renovation work in the Fife home.

She claimed over # 90,000 in second home allowance between 2004 and 2009, despite living less than 30 miles from Westminster.

But Smith's claim that her rationale was clear, and that the expenses claims were «fair and reasonable» are undermined by the fact the ACA relates specifically to parliamentary duties, not those of the home secretary, and the ruling the MPs should seek the cheapest second home allowance option.

Mr Maples claimed the maximum second home allowance possible while registering the RAC in London's Pall Mall as his principal residence.

At the same time, Ms Kirkbride used her own second homes allowance to claim more than # 900 a month towards the loan on their family home in Bromsgrove.

Despite having no mortgage or rent to pay on her constituency home in Derby, she claimed second home allowances of # 72,537 from 2004 to 2008.

Second home allowances for MPs could be replaced by an annual housing grant worth up to # 24,000, the Sunday Times claims.

Harriet Harman, the leader of the house, signalled a rethink when she told the Observer that the government «still have to find a formula which will reassure the public and MPs» on replacing the controversial second homes allowance, which compensates MPs for having to maintain a base in their constituency and the capital.

As part of his election pledge Mr Bercow said he would forego the # 24,000 - a-year second home allowance to restore trust in the wake of the expenses scandal.

She was compared with her neighbouring MP, Kelvin Hopkins, who it was reported in 2009 had only claimed # 8,894 in second home allowance over the previous five years.

An MP's annual allowance covers their office costs and staff wages while they can also claim a second home allowance to cover the purchase of a London home.

In May 2009, The Daily Telegraph revealed Lidington had claimed nearly # 1,300 for his dry cleaning and had also claimed for toothpaste, shower gel, body spray and vitamin supplements on his second home allowance.

Instead of the second homes allowance MPs would get a «flat rate» allowance based on attendance at Parliament.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller is facing fresh questions about her expenses claims after it was reported that she stopped claiming a second home allowance at around the time MPs were asked to sign a declaration that they would pay tax on any such property when it was sold.

The shadow chancellor was investigated over his second home allowance by the parliamentary standards watchdog.

Sir Alistair Graham, ex-chairman of the committee on standards in public life, called for a review of the perks system including family employees and second home allowances, which critics say is abused by a string of MPs including ministers.

Conservative leader says MP and wife of aide Andrew Mackay, who has resigned, has to answer for second home allowance

This is fantasy politics driven by the SUN and the MAIL, but I do applaud Ed balls pledge to crack down on MP who fiddle their expenses and to end the second home allowance and provide public accommodation for them instead.

He had allowed his daughter and her boyfriend to live in the London flat for which he claimed a second home allowance.

Further revelations that the peer has received a second home allowance of # 38,280 a year for the last five years - despite having her main home in the capital - meant many within Whitehall had predicted an imminent departure for the peer.

The second home allowance is designed to allow MPs from outside of London to attend parliament while also doing work in their constituency.

At present 51 of the AMs are entitled to a second home allowance for attending the assembly in Cardiff.

There also needs to be a radical overhauling of MPs» second home allowances.

Claim: The Conservative leader claimed a total of # 82,450 on his second home allowance over five years - mostly on mortgage interest payments and utility bills for his constituency home in Oxfordshire.

A handful of Conservative MPs - some within commuting distance of London - did not claim any second home allowance last year.

Claim: The Telegraph said the former Treasury minister continued to claim a second home allowance for his constituency home in Oxfordshire in early 2005 even though his main residence was, at one point, a room in a London private members» club.

David Howarth, MP for Cambridge, is alone among Lib Dem MPs outside greater London in not claiming for a second homes allowance last year.

As well as not claiming a second home allowance, Mr Afriyie - elected in 2005 - was not reimbursed for any travel costs.

At the heart of the abuse is the way MPs use their second homes allowance.

He claimed the reduced # 45 licence fee on his second homes allowance.

The Lib Dems also point out that none of their seven MPs from outer London, who were entitled to claim the second home allowance in full, did so as a matter of party policy.

Three cabinet members in particular are singled out for their «modest» claims under the second homes allowance by the Telegraph.