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Article: MPs vote to keep pounds 24k a year second home 'John Lewis list' POLITICS.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2008
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Byline: By Daniel Bentley
MPs last night rejected reforms of their controversial expenses, in defiance of public uproar over their taxpayer-funded claims for kitchens, bathrooms and plasma televisions.
While voting to keep the pounds 24,000-a-year budget to buy and kit out second homes, they also killed off moves to subject their allowances to external audits following recent scandals.
But they approved a new programme to kit themselves out with bigger and better constituency offices at an additional cost to the taxpayer of up to pounds 3.2 million ...