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Article: Lightbulbs and Sky TV - home truths of MPs' [pounds sterling]12m splurge; (1) Caved in: Speaker Martin (2) Clean bill: Gordon Brown.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 24, 2008
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Byline: Ian Drury
THE extravagant expenses claims made by MPs on their second homesfinally emerged last night.
Michael Martin, the Commons Speaker, caved in after a three-year legal battleand published a receipt-by-receipt breakdown of the [pounds sterling]12million-a-year perk.
The figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, exposed thefrivolous way politicians have used public money.
They have spent it on everything from window cleaning to rockeries to sprucingup mock Tudor gables.
Mr Martin sparked outrage after wasting more than [pounds sterling]200,000 of taxpayers' cashin a bid to keep a detailed breakdown ...