MPs expenses revealed for the first time
DETAILS of MPs’ expenses have been officially released this morning for the first time.
The Sentinel has already revealed the expenses of Labour MPs Rob Flello, Joan Walley, Mark Fisher, David Kidney, Paul Farrelly, Charlotte Atkins and Conservatives Bill Cash and Edward Timpson.
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But veteran Congleton MP Ann Winterton had failed to release her details.
The expenses will detail each MP’s second home allowance, their office costs and communications claims.
Click the links to see the the expenses for your local MP:
Mark Fisher - Stoke-on-Trent Central - Mark Fisher's Allowances
Rob Flello - Stoke-on-Trent South - Robert Flello's Allowances
David Kidney - Stafford - David Kidney's Allowances
Joan Walley - Stoke-on-Trent North - Joan Walley's Allowances
Bill Cash - Stone William Cash's Allowances
Ann Winterton - Congleton Ann Winterton's Allowances
Paul Farrelly - Newcastle-under-Lyme Paul Farrelly's Allowances
8 Comments
by Steve B, Kidsgrove
Friday, June 19 2009, 9:57AM
“I could not see a link to Ms Atkins expenses, so i went on the government website and pulled them all off myself. putting them all together into a spreadsheet those 3 years of expenses (not counting the 2008-2009) shows just how self serving and immoral my MP is. This is not a question of claiming what is allowed. This is a blatant case of screwing the system for whatever it can bear. House renovations, Garden landscaping, bathroom improvements. In what way are taxpayers responsible for that..? She claims that she brought a property because it was cheap but needing modernising. Failing to omit the fact that the profit she will realise on this upgraded property is hers alone and not given back into the public coffers. Disgusting..”
by Warren, Meir
Friday, June 19 2009, 7:52AM
“You can't find a lot out from this, much is blacked out, it does the MPs no favers at all, Westminster still looks to hide and protect them. An honnist MP said on the TV this morning that himself and around 200 others have notheing to hide, and the only thing they to be redacted were the addresses of people working for them, to stay in line with the data protection act. If it was a attemet to prove meny MPs have acted well within the gidelines and indeed not clamed all they are entitled to, it did'nt work, and thats a shame.”
by Andi, Stoke
Thursday, June 18 2009, 12:47PM
“So much information redacted , it now proves more than ever that the MPs want to knowingly hide the true amount of so called expenses that they have willingly exploited out of the tax payer .”
by amron, stoke
Thursday, June 18 2009, 11:38AM
“correct use of the word redacted. meaning that a document has been edited/revised for publication.”
by Gwendolen, Trentham
Thursday, June 18 2009, 11:24AM
“Uh, *redacted*, not "retracted". :D”
by Gwendolen, Trentham
Thursday, June 18 2009, 11:24AM
“Agreed Kevin. They've even retracted the council tax band letters of his homes. Why? I don't understand.”
by Kevin, Newcastle
Thursday, June 18 2009, 11:08AM
“Ihave only just scratched surface of Mark Fisher's expenses which I chose at random. The redaction or blotting out of the facts litter every page-something most definitely is amiss. The security mitigation has worn a bit thin”
by Gwendolen, Trentham
Thursday, June 18 2009, 10:41AM
“Actually, The Sentinel has only revealed what MPs wilfully revealed to them. And the officially published expenses are pointless because information about things like second homes has been redacted, so it's impossible to tell whether MPs have behaved improperly.”